Word: broads
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...dramatic crackdown against insider trading has been haunted by a strange irony: no specific statute outlaws or even defines the crime. Using the broad | antifraud provisions of federal law, prosecutors have been expanding the reach of prohibitions against insider trading on a case-by-case basis. Over the past few years they have won decisions in numerous courts, but none of those precedents have been explicitly endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...other use" clause of the bill is a very broad category and applies to the use of such substances as cleaning solvents, which Harvard may use in significant amounts, L'Ecuyer said...
Give it a break, Jeff. Protesters are not "like birds ... who like nothing more than to flock together," and who flit from issue to issue in search of the chic-est cause. Activists are thinking people who, for the most part, ascribe to a broad left-wing agenda. Their personal political concerns may range from union organizing, to feminism, to national self-determinism in the third world, to civil rights struggles here at home...
...because activists got bored and moved on to the next sexy issue, but rather because campus protest became ineffective. Once some universities and corporations divested and pulled out, campus protests understandably cooled and then faded from the news. Unfortunately, the old media-grabbing tactics had failed to produce the broad-based student support that would have been necessary to perpetuate a campus movement in the absence of TV cameras...
Working in Reagan's favor is the broad consensus that exists on the most urgent economic remedies. Political professionals cannot understand why Reagan has not put his best skill to use and gone to the airwaves, outlining the future, soothing the markets, sharing a sense of purpose and direction to ease the economic angst that is rattling the world economy. Says Jody Powell, who served as Jimmy Carter's press secretary: "Reagan's legacy will be judged by what happens to the economy. That ought to be his absolute No. 1 priority...