Word: barney
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...Hanover Trust. Last week Weill's persistence paid off. Commercial Credit Group, the Baltimore-based consumer-finance company (assets: $4.4 billion) he now heads, agreed to take over Primerica, a Connecticut-based financial-services firm that has three times the assets of Weill's corporation and owns the Smith Barney brokerage firm...
...Credit stock to Primerica shareholders, marks a triumphant return to Wall Street for Weill, 55, who built the investment firm that has become Shearson Lehman Hutton. What gave Weill his opportunity was a strategic miscalculation by Primerica Chairman Gerald Tsai, 59, who paid a lofty $750 million for Smith Barney just a few months before last year's crash. The debt he incurred in buying the firm became burdensome when Smith Barney's brokerage business sagged after Black Monday. Weill, as head of the combined firm, intends to sell Primerica's mail-order businesses in plants and specialty foods. Then...
Although Vellucci said he has been endorsed by Washington politicians including Reps. Edward Markey and Barney Frank, aides to the two U.S. Senators from Massachusetts, Edward M. Kennedy '54 and John F. Kerry, said the senators have declined to support either candidate...
...zeal with which the President has pursued his conservative domestic agenda has both united the Democrats as the party of opposition and severely limited their room for maneuver. As Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank points out, "The deficit is a great constrainer. If we had another $50 billion to spend, we would argue over how to spend it." From Dukakis on down, the Democratic gospel still includes ritual phrases like "unmet national needs" and "reorienting our priorities." But there is a hollowness to this rhetoric that reflects the barrenness of the federal cupboard. How could any Democrat today have the temerity...
March 1, 1988: Rep. Barney Frank '62 (D-Mass.) writes a letter endorsing HUCTW and criticizing the antiunion campaigning of the University. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and his nephew Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) also say they support the union's efforts...