Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high rollers had been ripping off millions of dollars by trading on knowledge not available to the general public. That sweeping form of sophisticated fraud did not merely touch the pocketbooks of professional stock-market players. The illicit profits came from taking unfair advantage of price movements in a broad range of stocks. That meant, in the end, that the speculators had pilfered from funds that countless thousands of ordinary investors had contributed to the market, in the form of their own stock purchases or investments in pension and mutual funds that in turn had bought securities...
...underestimate Reagan, who has defused many past crises. But this one seems different: for the first time, the public is showing a tendency not to believe the President, and the Democrats, who will shortly control both houses of Congress, sense that Reagan may at last be vulnerable to a broad-ranging attack. How can he fend...
...reform have so polarized the country that there is "no middle ground." I do not believe that this is so. The white liverals in the PFP, student groups, large sections of the colored and Indian populations and such non-violent multi-racial groups as the UDF represent a very broad middle ground, one on which I and many other South Africans of all races pin our hopes for the future...
...week's events than a regular lead story, the Economy & Business Special Reports will treat large subjects with an introductory survey, followed by separate stories examining various themes. Explains Senior Editor Charles Alexander, who oversaw this week's Special Report on the auto industry: "This format makes a broad subject easier to comprehend and allows us to approach it from different perspectives...
Many communities, of course, have outstanding programs, including Arlington, Va., Baltimore, and Irvington, N.J. Teaching can be impressively broad, running from kindergarten through twelfth grade and based on developmental psychology, emphasizing assertiveness training, the mechanics of decision making and assigned essays on topics like sex in the media...