Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although my professional avocation is mathematical economics--it is a bit abstract--I have been involved in the past in progressive politics," says Mas-Colell with characteristic understatement...
Administrators at most of the schools complained that the investigation's scope was too broad, and asked the Justice Department to either pare down its requests or extend the deadlines for compiling the records. The department did a little bit of both, but it was still too much for the in-house legal staffs at most of the schools...
...ending of the play, however, is slightly disappointing. While the bit about Gussie Fink-Nottle getting drunk for the first time and then handing out academic awards to small children is amusing, the parts in which Wooster bursts into song run a little long...
...enjoy a balmy Indian summer day. "I was on the floor until 2:30," said specialist Stone. "The trading was so quiet that I decided to go home." But by the time he got there shortly after 3, the damage was already out of control. "I saw quite a bit of panic selling," said Muriel Siebert, who heads a discount brokerage that bears her name. UAL shares fell 5 1/2 points before trading in its stock was halted because the number of sellers overwhelmed buyers. Delta Air Lines, a frequently rumored takeover target, dropped...
...kings of international terrorism? That has the U.S. impoverishing a whole country (Panama) through the blunt instrument of economic sanctions because we deny ourselves the use of a more surgical tool? One defense of the assassination ban is cynical. It is part of an unspoken agreement that brings a bit of order to the international chaos by ruling out one especially messy technique of war. Explicitly limiting the ban to heads of state would be too openly cynical, but the deal in essence is: You don't kill our leader, we won't kill yours. National leaders, if not their...