Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month a federal jury found that Bunker and Herbert, along with their brother Lamar, had conspired to corner the silver market in 1980. The court ordered them to pay a judgment of more than $130 million to a Peruvian mineral-marketing company that lost money in the debacle. The verdict could hurt the Hunts' chances in two class actions filed by 17,000 other silver investors. While appealing the judgment, the Hunts are required to post a $225 million bond, which might force them to hold a garage sale of some of their most prized belongings. The brothers hope...
Sasso also excels at a very difficult task: he makes Michael Dukakis listen. The Governor has said Sasso, 41, is like a brother to him. The unassuming Sasso is like the outgoing, slightly mischievous kid who takes the edge off his stern, driven older brother. Where Dukakis is stiff and awkward in dealing with people, Sasso is a natural; he puts people at ease. He is Dukakis' emissary to the outside world. For years, politicians, bureaucrats and constituents have all said the same thing, "I can't talk to Dukakis. Let me talk to Sasso...
That is when Amjad came up with the idea of creating a virus, a self- replicating program that would "infect" an unauthorized user's computer, disrupt his operations and force him to contact Amjad for repairs. Says brother Basit: "He wanted a way to detect piracy, to catch someone who copies." Meanwhile, however, the Alvi brothers had started doing some copying of their own, making bootleg duplicates of American programs and selling them at steep discounts. Eventually, they started injecting the same virus into some of those program disks as well...
Click. A little boy, hating his older brother, lies in wait behind their bedroom door and strikes him so hard with a water carafe that it breaks. A gush of blood mingles with shattered glass...
Tony Hinz is Harvard's chief running threat. Jason's brother, Judd, is the leader of Princeton's ground attack...