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...make money by buying the stock of takeover targets and selling it at a higher price when the deals go through. The high anxiety about the junk-bond market sent the stocks of takeover targets plunging across the board. "The arbs got their heads handed to them," said Anson Beard, the chief trader for Morgan Stanley. "Very few anticipated that the UAL buyout could fail." Small investors suffered less because they have been less active in the market since the 1987 crash...
...unidentified witness to the incident described the thief as a 5'10", 170-lb. man with blond hair and a shaggy beard, according to Reyes...
Cicippio, 58, has a bushy beard and was shown from the waist up reading from a statement. The poor English suggested it was written by his captors...
...After the spill, Hazelwood became a marked man. He flew home to Huntington Bay, shaved his beard to change his appearance, and was promptly arrested. In court an assistant district attorney called him "the architect of an American tragedy," and a state supreme court judge compared the damage from the spill to the destruction of Hiroshima. Hazelwood was held overnight in a lockup with more than 50 other prisoners, many of them accused or convicted murderers, armed robbers and drug dealers. When his cellmates learned that his bond had been set at $1 million (and bail at $500,000), they...
...millions of his countrymen mourned the loss. They did so even though the movement he led plunged them into a devastating war with Iraq and left a legacy of turbulence at home and terrorism abroad. To his people, the patriarch with the baleful dark eyes and white beard had been the heart and sword of their revolution, the icon of implacable opposition -- first to the dictatorship of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and then to the U.S., which the Ayatullah relentlessly denounced as the Great Satan...