Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What indeed? According to Roosevelt's Truth-in-Securities Act of 1933, every new stock issue had to be registered with the Federal Trade Commission and had to disclose "every important essential element" about what was being sold. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 extended those rules to all stocks, demanded that every company's insiders disclose their holdings, authorized the Federal Reserve to set margin rates, and established a new Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the market (its first chairman: Joseph P. Kennedy). Wall Street howled. "The exchange," said Harvard-educated, Morgan-trained Stock Exchange President...
...President warning Administration members of the consequences of discussing security information with reporters. According to a high White House aide, announcement of the guidelines had to be rushed because news of their existence was beginning to leak. The crux of the President's order: "All contacts with any element of the news media in which classified National Security Council matters or classified intelligence information are discussed will require the advance approval of a senior official. In the event of unauthorized disclosure of such information, Government employees who have had access to that information will be subject to investigation...
...virtue in his kind of sanguine temperament than college coaching staffs do. Whether shooting baskets in the intramural "Bookstore Classic," or pool at Corby's or Frisbees at beer cans in the hallway hockey games, Montana was a natural competitor, and the players knew it. His jokes, another element probably only they understood-icebreaking one-liners-were not automatically funny. They were only funny when he said them...
...disasters go, this one was terrible, but not unique, certainly not among the worst on the roster of U.S. air crashes. There was the unusual element of the bridge, of course, and the fact that the plane clipped it at a moment of high traffic, one routine thus intersecting another and disrupting both. Then, too, there was the location of the event. Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic, deregulated, by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. The jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like...
Money is the prime mover for the NFL, where the astroturf is clearly only the second most important green element. The Super Bowl provides the league with ten million dollars from gate receipts and the sale of broadcast rights...