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Through its aggressive dealmaking, the fledgling company, which had only about 20 traders operating out of a fifth-floor attic above a Wall Street area clothing shop, elbowed its way into the thick of play. Using what they thought to be sophisticated, computer-guided trading strategies based on a secret computer program code-named Arnold, Drysdale's two top dealers, Richard Taaffe, president, and David Heuwetter, chief trader, managed in little more than three months' time to amass an astonishing $4 billion-plus portfolio of borrowed U.S. Treasury securities...
Take the lead in song, "Loveland". Clindy Wilson's torch of a voice blends in with the thick, funky beat laid down by drummer Keith Strickland and guitarist Ricky Wilson. The result is a kind of trance, similar to producer Byrne's hypnotic work on "Remain in Light," certainly not as intricate or complicated, but more minimalist and celebratory. And it makes you want to move...
...hours after the flames died down, thick clouds of smoke covered the charred remnants of buildings. In one burned-out house, water still gushed into a bathtub. Broken gas lines blazed like torches in the remains of apartments; the twisted hulks of blackened cars were scattered through the rubble...
...July. The company now owns Dean Witter Reynolds securities and Coldwell Banker real estate. Last year American Express Co. bought Shearson Loeb Rhoades, the second largest securities firm, and the Prudential Insurance Co. acquired the Bache Group, the sixth biggest brokerage house. Banks will soon be in the thick of the financial fight...
George Mamunes, 14, a gangling ninth-grader dressed in flannel shirt, blue jeans and hiking boots, knits his thick, dark eyebrows while putting the finishing touches on a computer program, already nearly 300 lines long. For those uninitiated in the special languages of the computer age, it looks like a hopeless mess of numerical gibberish. But when completed, these arcane instructions should produce a computer image of the heart detailed enough to show every major artery and vein, as well as valves and chambers. The electronic heart is part of a teaching tool George is putting together for eighth-grade...