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<text id=90TT0685>
<title>
Mar. 19, 1990: Business Notes:Wall Street
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
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<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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