“I think in the past year we’ve...

“I think in the past year we’ve seen that the markets are strong. But some people still have to shake off some of those old fears.”

--Wall Street trader Robert B. Fagenson, commenting on the first anniversary of Black Monday.

“I’m awed and amazed.”

--Ronald Morrow, a Wall Street analyst, on a proposed $17-billion management buyout of RJR Nabisco Corp., a deal that would would be the largest corporate purchase in history.