On Monday, the ex-NYSE director summoned top bankers to listen to his arguments for a counter-bid for the 212-year-old stock market.
Even when he appears on television, such as for the Ackman battle royale, Icahn phones in, and the network flashes a years-old stock photo as he speaks.
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Today's DeLorean Motor Co. makes about six "new" cars a year--they have stainless-steel reproduction chassis and a combination of new-old stock (NOS), original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and reproduction parts.
This was the first time the 211-year-old stock exchange had disclosed the pay of its top official, though details of Grasso's compensation were leaked to the press back in May, helping to touch off concerns about how the "self-regulatory body" regulates itself.
Because of very low birth rates among old-stock Germans, the proportion of foreign-born is highest among those younger than 20s.
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Neame is of old Murchison stock, tracing her family back to when the area was settled in the 1800s, and knows plenty of local history.
The IRS, he says, was forcing him to award dividends within the old employee stock ownership plan in proportion to an individual's ownership in the company, thus excessively rewarding longtime employees at the expense of newer ones.
Just like the old days the stock roughly doubled on the first day of trading, triggering complaints, just like the old days, that the issue was underpriced by the deal's underwriters, rewarding those lucky enough to get allocated shares of the offering at the expense of the company.
John Thain continues to push the 212-year-old New York Stock Exchange into the 21st century.
In America, regulators are also forcing the more old-fashioned stock exchanges to modernise or die.
Hank Greenberg was 4 years old when the stock market crashed in 1929 and the Great Depression followed.
Reporting quarterly earnings after the bell on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is another old school tech stock that traders will be focused on this week.
All this changed after 1971, when the old New York Stock Exchange was joined by an upstart new rival, Nasdaq, which imposed less stringent listing conditions.
The company was already 24 years old when the stock market crashed in 1929 and continued to grow, especially after World War II when there was a shortage of formal wear for businessmen.
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Too many changes have happened to society and the world we live in for a 50-year-old to be able to relate to a 15-year-old and the stock put-down phrase adopted by all kids "you wouldn't understand" is perfectly appropriate - though very unwelcome at any age.
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Macallan mined its extensive stock of old casks and chose 37 of their best to bottle as part of a well-defined set.
Nasdaq bought the old Boston and Philadelphia stock exchanges.
Not to worry: It now trades on the Nasdaq bulletin board, thanks to an old tactic of penny-stock operators--the reverse merger.
Any delay will give Samsung time to clear the old inventory and help stores stock alternative products that are not on the ban list.
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He left the stock picking to the old firm while making Vanguard a pure distribution house.
They are rereading old board minutes to determine whether stock options were properly accounted for.
Facing urgent challenges unencumbered by old conventions, leaders of common stock and uncommon vision crafted a bold new constitutional framework.
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Uber is aiming to stock demand in an old industry, like Cherry.
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Some 20 years later the stock market reached its old pre-crash peak and the economy powered by pent up consumer purchases, roared ahead.
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There were local self-regulatory stock exchanges and the old NASD.
It was a time of singing-sock-puppets, 21-year-old chief executives, gravity-defiant stock prices, revolutionary technologies and half-baked business plans.
Today, an old ranch house in Arthur holds the stock of a typical small grocery in an unconventional setting.
PCCW's initial stock fall is partly derived from the fact that analysts now have a facility to be able to read the stock, a century-old telephone company.
Brownstone Brooklyn makes a dignified statement with its housing stock, albeit a quiet, old-fashioned one.
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