Word: bouting
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Peace was hardly concluded with the city when another round opened in the exchange's bout with Washington over brokerage commissions. The Securities and Exchange Commission issued strong "recommendation" that the Big Board modify its commission structure to provide "volume discounts" for large transactions by mid-September. Currently, the broker's fee in a 1,000-share transaction is ten times that of a 100-share deal, even though the cost of executing the orders is the same...
...Sweden's pouty-lipped Essy Persson, and Isabelle by France's blonde, big-eyed Anna Gael. They make love with their clothes on in a toilet cubicle and the school chapel, and with their clothes off in bed and in the woods. There is also a prolonged bout of autoeroticism and, just for variety, one heterosexual encounter; a voice-over narrative explains, in Leduc's empurpled prose, what the camera is relentlessly recording...
...deep in debt (he owes $280,000 to his lawyers) and nearing the final round of his losing two-year bout with the U.S. Selective Service System; yet Muhammad Ali, 25, once known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, still has that golden gift of gab. His latest bit of doggerel, recited on college campuses while speaking for the cause of the Black Muslims, recounts the long journey in store for Joe Frazier, current pretender to the heavyweight crown, if ever they should fight...
...most exciting race of the afternoon will probably be the freshman heavyweight return bout between Pennsylvania and the Crimson. Last weekend at Annapolis, the rugged Penn frosh nudged Harvard by one and a half seconds...
Peters's long bout with mononucleosis last summer has been pointed to as the cause of his slump, but he doesn't think that's right. "I'm fully recovered from it," he said...