Word: amassment
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...into the thick of play. Using what they thought to be sophisticated, computer-guided trading strategies based on a secret computer program code-named Arnold, Drysdale's two top dealers, Richard Taaffe, president, and David Heuwetter, chief trader, managed in little more than three months' time to amass an astonishing $4 billion-plus portfolio of borrowed U.S. Treasury securities...
...When he reads from the Scriptures, Sechele's eyes are radiant. But is he a convert, or a con man more anxious for British guns than for God's grace? As for Livingstone, is not a single believer a joy to heaven? Or is he trying to amass a head count of natives for personal glory? Pownall raises these questions without really answering them. But he raises them with a Shavian exuberance...
...Jackson stresses that Dukakis kept his campaigning and teaching scrupulously separate. "I am sure that he didn't use the three years at the Kennedy School to develop his policies. Some people are surprised that he didn't hit the ground running, and they ask why he didn't amass a bevy of advisers to write white papers...
...first four Library of America books fit this description. And the need for such volumes has only grown more urgent over the years. Two decades ago, readers could amass complete sets of their favorite authors by mixing older editions with paperbacks. That is no longer as cheap or as easy as it once was. Bookstores have ever less shelf space to give to slow-moving titles; warehousing such items has become prohibitively expensive. Paperbacks blink in and out of print like fireflies. They also, as older collectors have ruefully discovered, fade and fall apart even more rapidly than their owners...
...Today a considerable portion of Warsaw Pact maneuvers and contingency planning is focused on Poland-the country where the treaty creating the alliance was signed. If Polish troops cannot stabilize the situation, their allies may move in to help. While the Warsaw Pact's principal function is to amass power against the West, the Soviet Union has actually exerted that power in Europe, firing shots in anger, only when invading its fellow member states...