Word: bark
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TRADING STOCKS. Stockbrokers trading U.S. government securities at 40 sites and six major brokerage houses can now bark their buy and sell orders into special telephones and see their trades instantly recorded on computer screens at their desks. Similar systems are being used by quality-control inspectors on factory lines, by doctors filling out medical reports and by lawyers putting together paragraphs of boiler-plate prose...
...years' experience, Fay can still lose a trail, but Ndokanda, a former elephant hunter, or any of the other Pygmies can read the very faintest imprint with a glance. In the forest they are utterly self-reliant, creating cord from vines, cups from leaves and bed mats from bark. Still, they are apprehensive about this forest, and when Fay tells them where we are going, Samory says, "Mokele Mbembe lives there." Fay is convinced that the Pygmies are describing a black rhinoceros, an animal that does occasionally fight elephants...
...though the trunk's rough, wrinkled bark pressed into our chests, our stomachs, our knees, we stayed there for a long time...
Many critics, however, complain that the SEC's regulatory bark is worse than its bite. They point to a case, decided last month, involving Neil Rogen, founder and former chairman of Memory Metals, who without admitting or denying guilt agreed to a court order to settle insider-trading charges with forfeited profits and fines totaling $6 million. The SEC, though, waived the fines when Rogen said he didn't have the money to pay them...
Corzo brought in a celebrated Italian husband-and-wife team of art restorers, Paolo and Laura Mora, who led six Italian and four Egyptian conservators in a year-long emergency campaign. They applied 10,000 strips of Japanese mulberry-bark paper to the walls and ceilings like Band-Aids, to keep plaster from crumbling and paint from flaking. Then began the painstaking work of restoration. The conservators swabbed every square inch of the tomb with distilled water, gently removing the accumulation of 3,000 years of dust and soot. In some areas, they chiseled the layers of plaster and paint...