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- Mar. 19, 1990: Business Notes:Wall Street
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- WALL STREET
- Membership Has Its Woes
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- <body>
- <p> All too aware of how fast the end came last month for Drexel
- Burnham Lambert, wags at the brokerage firm of Shearson Lehman
- Hutton are in pretty grim humor these days. The latest joke
- making the rounds of the troubled American Express subsidiary:
- "What's the difference between Shearson and Drexel?" Answer:
- "About three months."
- </p>
- <p> American Express has tried for months to sell part of its
- 60% stake in the firm. The financial giant even talked with
- Sanford Weill, the former head of Shearson who sold the
- brokerage to American Express in 1981. Finally, with no buyers
- in sight, Chief Executive James Robinson announced last week
- that American Express would purchase the rest of Shearson from
- shareholders in a stock-swap deal valued at $350 million. The
- parent company plans to cut its losses by rapidly shrinking its
- subsidiary. Last week it began laying off 2,000 of Shearson's
- 35,500 employees.
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