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...deal underscores Kodak's swift financial turnaround. In 1985 and 1986 the company suffered six straight quarters of declining profits, but in the first nine months of 1987 earnings more than tripled from the same period the previous year, to $936 million...
Measuring 353 ft. from stem to stern and a potbellied 40 ft. across at the waist, the U.S. Navy's proposed SSN-21 Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine looks more like a whale with a weight problem than a swift and silent undersea marauder. Yet when the first of a projected 30 Seawolfs sets to sea in 1995, her proponents hope she will live up to her name by proving to be a deadly hunter-killer beneath the waves. "The Seawolf," says the Navy's top submariner, Vice Admiral Bruce DeMars, "will be the supersub of the 21st century...
...than $1.8 billion apiece, the Seawolfs may turn out to be the superduds of undersea warfare. Last week widely respected Congressional Staff Aide Anthony Battista declared that the Seawolf could not compete with faster, quieter Soviet subs and that the Navy should scrap it. Reaction to this broadside was swift. "We continue to have, by far, the finest submarines in the world," retorted Navy Secretary James Webb...
Leland's original idea, developed in the mid-1970s with the help of another Berkeley professor, Mark Rubinstein, involved a complex formula by which money managers would make swift, sharp changes in the ratio of cash to stocks in their portfolios as share prices rose or fell. The plan was workable, but because it involved buying and selling large quantities of stocks, it was also relatively cumbersome and expensive...
...different as the two markets are, they have become inextricably linked through the computerized trading strategies carried out by big brokerage houses, pension fund managers and other institutional investors. One variation is called index arbitrage, in which traders try to make swift, sure profits by taking advantage of temporary discrepancies between the prices of stock-index futures and the actual stocks that make up the index. A related gimmick is portfolio insurance, in which money managers sell stock-index futures during a market decline to guard themselves against losses. Heavy use of these strategies can produce violent price swings...