Word: barney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scary. How long, they ask, can the market keep going up and up in a straight line? After all, as one of the oldest of all Wall Street cliches puts it, "Trees don't grow to the sky." Peter Furniss, a managing director at the brokerage firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham, chooses a different metaphor. Says he: "It's like a college frat party. The music is loud, and everybody is having a wild time. But sooner or later, the cops are coming to bust up the party...
...BARNEY FRANK...
...only ones to have the guts to stand up to President Reagan when he was at his strongest," says Rep. Barney Frank...
...Shanghai-born whiz is chief executive of Primerica, formerly American Can, once a pillar of Smokestack America and currently a $2.9 billion financial-services conglomerate. Last week Tsai burst back onto Wall Street when Primerica announced that it had agreed to buy Smith Barney, one of the country's best-known brokerage firms, for $750 million...
...acquisition caps Tsai's efforts to transform Primerica into a financial powerhouse. Since he joined Primerica, the company has shed more than 25 businesses and acquired 15 others. In snaring Smith Barney (1986 revenues: about $1.1 billion), Tsai paid double the assessed value of the firm's assets, which Wall Street analysts called a bargain...