Word: actually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHRB's estimated audience is difficult to gauge. Barol says the station distributes 15,000 program guides every other month, and that that figure represents only about one-third of the actual listenership...
...eventual escape make up the plot of Alan Parker's shattering new film, Midnight Express, but to so limit the description of the movie is something akin to samming up Citizen Kane as the filmic biography of a newspaper magnate. Like all extraordinary movies based on real people or actual events, Midnight Express has boldly transcended the limits of its true-life story to bring forth a larger-than-life refinement. The five-year incarceration of Billy Hayes becomes an inspiring epic of one very ordinary man's struggle to endure and ultimately prevail which are at once unspeakable...
However, even if it is his son who is the actual beneficiary, Howe would still seem to be involved in conflict-of-interest, because he is the beneficiary's legal custodian. Howe denies this, saying his wife could be the custodian instead. But according to several legal sources, including one in the state Attorney General's office, if the state Taxation Department finds that Howe's family tax break was unjustified, the assessor could be fired by the Department for violating the state's conflict-of-interest statute...
...Cairo-born André Levy pauses to deny a bit of gossip circulating among his fellow money dealers in Lausanne, Switzerland. He insists that it is just not true that his firm - somewhat whimsically named Tradition S. A. - exchanges half a billion dollars for stronger currencies each day. The actual figure, he states with aplomb, is "more than a billion dollars...
Money traders like Levy are, consequently, in the eye of a financial hurricane. Though they mostly act on orders from clients rather than initiate trades, they do the actual swapping of dollars for other currencies. And since their arcane business is little understood, they inevitably come under suspicion of abetting the recurrent panics that often cause the dollar to plunge further than any reasonable calculation of its purchasing power would warrant. As Otmar Emminger, head of the West German central bank, complains, "The currency markets have become absolutely irrational...