Word: chicago
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Even so, in the Chicago area skinheads have been linked to the defacing of a new Holocaust memorial and drawing swastikas in public places. Law enforcement officials are "taking this threat very seriously," says Terry Levin of the Cook County state attorney's office. B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League sounded the same theme. In Shaved for Battle, a report on skinhead activities, the A.D.L. called for "careful monitoring" of the movement because of its "disturbing possibilities...
Last week, after a decade of wrangling, a U.S. district judge in Chicago ordered Amoco to pay $85.2 million in damages and interest, the largest penalty ever assessed in an environmental case. Amoco called the sum excessive, and France's President Francois Mitterrand said the damages awarded "scarcely conform to the extent of the disaster." Both sides plan to appeal...
...plastic pink flamingos -- and some items that are downright tasteless, notably a painted wooden figure that depicts an obese woman bending over, seen from behind. "I won't go so far as to say we're the biggest in the business," says Harper. "I heard of some place in Chicago that has a pretty big stock. But we do have the biggest variety I know about...
...with established reputations generally would ignore them. The real decisions were made by back-room coalitions assembled at the convention. John Kennedy, for example, entered the West Virginia primary to prove he could win in an ardently Protestant state, then made his peace with the big-city bosses like Chicago's Richard Daley. Such an arrangement often froze out fresh faces and neglected dissenting minorities in the party. But it vetted candidates with a hard eye for their chances in the general election, and it imposed a rough kind of party unity behind the man lucky enough to make...
Enter stock-index futures. These are speculative instruments, traded mostly in the pits of the Chicago commodity exchanges, that allow investors to bet on the direction the stock market is headed without having to buy the stocks themselves. Cheaper and easier to trade than traditional securities, stock- index futures seemed to the budding portfolio insurers like a hedge made in heaven. Rather than sell stocks when prices start to fall, clients could hold the stocks and sell stock-index futures instead. If the market kept falling, income from the sale of the futures would offset much of the losses...