public stocks

I call it cybershame, sort of the public stocks of the Internet.

Greater trade required paper credits; expanding railroads needed to sell more public stocks and bonds.

So put them in public stocks, too.

What new intervention mechanisms should we adopt to prevent strategic public stocks being replaced by speculative private hoarding?

Instances of perpetuities are the dividends upon the public stocks in England, France and some other countries.

Q. Public humiliation has been an effective tool ever since the Pilgrims and the public stocks.

Brokerage firms serve a clientele of investors who trade public stocks and other securities, usually through the firm's agent stockbrokers.

Public stocks were typically positioned in the most public place available, as public humiliation was a critical aspect of such punishment.

"You aren't paying them fees to own a basket of public stocks," said one pension fund adviser whose clients include Kohlberg Kravis investors.

But, short of reviving the ducking-stool and public stocks, little could be done to regulate the behaviour of private citizens in private pools and palaces.

By their nature, these investments are less liquid than public stocks and are designed for investors with medium- to long-term time horizons and commensurate risk tolerance.

And the ratio of the value of all public stocks to gross domestic product, which is sort of a proxy for sales for the overall economy, has never been higher.

Nonviolent "check forgers, deadbeat dads, safe-crackers, parole violators" should be held up to public scorn and humiliation, just as lawbreakers were put in the public stocks in colonial America.

VINCE COLEMAN and Bret Saberhagen are in the public stocks today, heads exposed to the rotten tomatoes hurled from behind columns and out of squawk radio.

If harsher punishment were deemed necessary, a female convict would receive solitary confinement on bread and water for a week, the cropping of her hair, and be placed in the public stocks for an hour or two.

She is the only character to show the hunchback a moment of human kindness: as he is being whipped for punishment and jeered by a horrid rabble, she approaches the public stocks and gives him a drink of water.

Yet I risk seeing myself banned and potentially vilified, perhaps about to be put in the public stocks of cheap print, quartered in the name of purity and in the pursuit of readers and sensation, money and greed.

Representative John R. Kasich, the Ohio Republican who heads the budget committee, juggled metaphors, first asking whether the republic was heading toward the installation of public stocks on the Capitol steps so citizens might cast rotten vegetables at pinioned politicians.

This situation is particularly serious for Portugal because it could undermine the Portuguese prudential rules, specifically the mandatory investment of 50% of professional pension funds in public stocks, as well as putting unacceptable pressure on the capitalisation funds of the public social security system.

But those who, in order to make family settlements, and to provide for remote futurity, buy into the public stocks, would not care to purchase into one of which the value was continually diminishing; and such people make a very considerable proportion both of the proprietors and purchasers of stock.

In July 2000, Spanish Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria purchased most of Bancomer S.A.'s public stocks from Mexican BMO Financial Group, partially merging it with BBV Probursa, thus the BBVA in its name.

There is no Federal statute, though there are Federal laws providing penalties for false personation of the lawful owner of public stocks, &c., or of persons entitled to pensions, prize money, &c., or the false making of any order purporting to be a money order.

Let me explain once again what the supplementary budget will be used for: a proportion, i.e. 33 million, will go towards funding additional BSE tests, a significant share will be used for the buying-in of beef in public stocks, and the majority will be allocated to cover the 'purchase for destruction' scheme for cattle.