University Daily Kansan/Friday, December 2, 1988
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Two joggers take a late afternoon run along the Kansas River levee.
River run
Directory listings unpopular out West
LOS ANGELES — Las Vegas likes its privacy and Los Angeles would rather you write than call if a survey of unlisted phone numbers is any indication.
education.
Las Vegas ranked No. 1 in the nation with 60 percent of its phone numbers unlisted, while about 56 percent of people with numbers in Los Angeles County do not list them in phone directories, according to Survey Sampling Inc., a Connecticut company that sells phone numbers to market research companies.
The Associated Press
market research In Los Angeles, the 56 percent figure was a 4 percent increase from two years ago.
"The rate of unlistedness is definitely jumping, especially in the top marketing markets," said John Lamb. Survey Sampling. "Younger people, ages 18 to 30, are notting to list their phone numbers. Our suspicion is that they feel it keeps telemarketers from getting to them."
Not listing a number won't deter all phone solicitors, however. Lamb noted many companies use computers that call every number in sequence, listed or not.
California is the leader when it comes to residents who don't want their phone numbers listed.
Plan would stabilize stock market Professor develops thesis based on company back-up funds
NEW YORK — What this market of corporate stocks needs is liquidity, said the professor, and he went on to suggest that the corporations themselves consider providing it.
This Associated Press
The professor's observation has its own reason for debacle of Oct. 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped hundreds of points in a few hours, devouring about one-half trillion dollars of value.
swamped by his
It could have been worse, says
papyrus Robert A. Schwartz,
if companies hadn't used their own
cash to buy back their stocks. He
feels they helped turn a tide that
could have destroyed the market.
trilogy that that's illiquidity, the professor said. There were sellers everywhere and almost no buys, and many of the specialists, who are supposed to
buy when others are selling, were swamped by the avalanche.
Observing those actions, the professor developed a detailed plan to eliminate excess volatility in securities markets by asking listed companies to establish permanent stabilization funds.
These funds would remain invested in U.S. Treasury notes until they
were needed, which would be determined by a precipitous drop in stock prices.
Schwartz, who teaches economics and finance at New York University, would market to buy a preset number of shares when the price of their shares fell to a certain level.
fell to a certain vet. As the author of the recently published "Equity Markets: Structure, Trading and Performance," Schwartz justifies his thesis by stating that the only way to stabilize a market is to commit capital to market making.
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