Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...angry. I had hoped that the regulators would give some encouragement to the banks, which I don't think happened. I think Drexel's lack of friends -- as perceived by the world -- might have made it easier for a midlevel official in one of those agencies to not help us. In their eyes, we were lacking in political constituencies...
...Getting rattled doesn't help you perform. At this point we've taken Drexel's $25 billion of inventory positions down to around $1 billion, and I'm too busy to try to figure out the long-term psychological impact on me. But it's been very sad to watch the dismantling of what we built. We were trying to create the most effective investment bank in the country, and for a moment in time, we achieved that...
...fall in prices should help industrial countries reduce inflation. But for oil producers, lower prices could bring a precipitous drop in export earnings. OPEC members are so alarmed that Sadek Boussena of Algeria, the group's acting president, has been consulting with other members to consider calling an emergency meeting to deal with the glut...
...among people who shied from extremes. He is the coeval of the cold war: the year of his birth, 1947, also gave us the CIA, the Attorney General's list of subversives and the internal-security program. When Quayle was five years old, Dwight Eisenhower carried Indiana with the help of Quayle's grandfather, publisher Eugene Pulliam, and William Jenner, who were, respectively, the right and the far right of the state Republican Party. When the John Birch Society was set up in 1958 with the thesis that Eisenhower had collaborated with communism, Quayle's parents became enthusiastic supporters...
AMERICANS have traditionally been willing to do anything to protect the environment--anything, that is, that does not involve the slightest inconvenience to themselves. Even after Earth Week is over, it is important to remember that the daily choices we make as consumers and citizens can help or hinder efforts to bequeath a habitable planet to our children...