Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devil--but not nearly as scary as what Bernays does with her women characters. The women of Bernays book, Anita in particular, are just downright unlikable. Bernays skillfully makes Anita into a stereotypical militant feminist--a hippie-turned-professor who uses gender-neutral terms and "carries around a great deal of anger...
...itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...type of shady deal was "front-running," in which a broker profits from advance information by trading ahead of a customer's order. A crooked broker might receive an order, for example, to buy 250,000 bu. of soybeans at $5.85 a bu. He could easily execute his own order to buy 50,000 bu. first. Later, when the market reacted to the larger order by pushing prices up to $5.95, the trader could sell his contracts, pocketing $5,000 in profits. A second illicit practice uncovered by the feds was "curb trading," in which brokers conspired to consummate deals...
After Israel kidnaps a Shi'ite leader, terrorists announce the execution of one American and threaten another. George Bush works diplomatic channels and ponders a military strike, but the painful fact remains: the U.S. still has no effective way to deal with hostage taking. This time, however, there is a tantalizing glimpse of hope -- the prospect of Iran's cooperation. See NATION...