Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investment experts generally say that shareholder petitions are effective even if only 10 or 20 percent of voting shareholders support them. As long as a substantial minority of shareholders registers registers concern about a certain aspect of company policy, experts say, the directors often will take note of the concern and consider changes...
...evening started on a melancholy note for Harvard with the honoring of the squad's lone senior, Co-Captain Wendy Joseph...
...York Representative Jack Kemp sounded a very different note, insisting that deficit reduction should take second place to economic growth. Said Kemp: "We have a central bank that believes that too much economic growth causes inflation." The Canadians heard a rebuttal from Federal Reserve Board Governor Henry Wallich, who warned that economic growth of more than 4% would be inflationary...
...small firms scrimp every way possible. For example, they avoid long, self-indulgent recording sessions. Says Folk Singer John Stewart: "Before I step into the studio, I know every note I'm going to play." Husker Du, a trio on California's SST label, recorded a two-disk punk masterpiece in just 45 hours. Artists on small labels also go without such freebies as drinks and buffets, which have become staples at some music firms. Refreshments at Twin/ Tone Records in Minneapolis, for example, are limited to an occasional twelve- pack of beer...
...Jacob Epstein confessed that he had not sufficiently "originalized" whole passages from Amis' first novel, The Rachel Papers, before incorporating them into his own fictional debut, Wild Oats. Now the son of British Novelist Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim, One Fat Englishman) is back with a splash. Money: A Suicide Note is one of those infrequent novels that should divide readers into admirers and detractors, with little room for neutrality. The book even comes with a bit of extraliterary irony. While his father's novel Stanley and the Women has been shunned by U.S. publishers for being insensitive to females...