Word: affected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insider," by Wall Street terminology - and by the legally enforced standards of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-is anyone who, by reason of being an officer, director or major stockholder of a corporation, can get advance information that might affect the firm's stocks. Thus insiders are required to file regular reports of their stock purchases with the SEC; the commission closely scrutinizes such reports to make sure that the insiders have not profited by information unavailable to outsiders, meaning the general public...
Arons' sweeping course ranges from Galileo and Faraday to Voltaire and John Stuart Mill. He starts his lectures by locking the door at the opening bell ?to encourage promptness, he says; to keep the kids from fleeing, they say. As he carefully shows how a scientific theory can affect man's own view of himself, and requires students to explain such notions as velocity and inertia in their own words, the relevance hits them. The course, recalls Amherst Graduate Evan Snyder, "was absolute hell?but one of the most valuable intellectual experiences I've been through." One student slipped...
...court's answers may affect the liberty and the safety of all Americans. As Justice Abe Fortas put it during the oral arguments last month: "We deal not with the criminal against society, but the state and the individual...
...devoted an unusual three days to oral arguments last month, the court heard the defendants' lawyers declare that the new standard will not affect...
...secure $9,430,000 in new capital with two other savings and loan operators to set up a new housing-construction bank, and a $1,000,000 loan request to the Inter-American Development Bank to set up a cooperative bank among his credit unions. Such cares tend to affect a man's point of view. To a friend who recently saw him checking into Lima's Gran Hotel Bolivar, the capitalist priest explained that he "had to get away from the brothers. Those guys were keeping me awake all night arguing theology...