Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instruments in a bitter tussle six years ago, but the SEC has been looking for a chance to gain control over the fast-growing market ever since. Last week the SEC made its move. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, SEC Chairman David Ruder asked Congress for broad new powers that would make his agency the ultimate regulator of stock-index futures and any new investment vehicles based on stocks. The securities and stock-index-futures markets, he argued, have become too intimately entangled to divide their supervision between two regulatory agencies. Said he: "We are the agency that...
...Kennedy follows the sweep of diplomatic-military history from the dynastic struggles of 16th century Europe to the superpower competition of today. Kennedy's tale of the rise and fall of Great Powers is an uncontroversial one which relies heavily on other historians' interpretations. But Kennedy has created a broad synthetical framework to establish the "dynamic of change" involving military strength and economic capacity in world politics. While this link has been written on extensively by numerous scholars, The Rise and Fall is already an influential new book simply because it forcefully documents the importance of this dynamic over...
...emerges. More colored glass is added to the gas jet, layer upon layer of opaque, translucent and transparent browns, yellows, oranges and reds, and one by one petals, stamens and stems bloom into being. Paul Stankard leans back from the workbench at his home in Mantua, N.J., and his broad, open face creases into a smile. "You know what I do for a living?" he asks. "I take $25 worth of material, make love to it for a few hours and then sell...
...titled -- were bringing gorgeous garments out to clients. Some of the clients were dyed blonds, past first youth and swaddled in mink. But there were young beauties too, including Lucy Ferry, wife of Rock Star Bryan Ferry, who was swanning around in her Louise Brooks bob, sporting a brown broad-brimmed straw hat topped by, yes, a huge pink branch. Another woman tried on an exquisite Arlesian fichu. She had it on backward, but it was still charming. Acting out their dress-up fantasies, or simply getting to the changing cabins, they all seemed to trip over a dark fellow...
...President Daniel Ortega suggested this last month when he said that the Sandinistas would never cede their political hegemony. As Robert Leiken, currently a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs has written, Ortega's "strategy is clear... he will delay lifting the state of emergency and granting broad amnesty and the other democratic reforms stipulated in the Guatemalan accords until the contras have been disbanded and defunded." Others have echoed Leiken's fears that the Sandinistas are cynically using the peace process to squash internal resistance to their regime...