Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some students also sympathized with the activists. "Perhaps they went a little bit too far, but the administration hasn't given them a chance to express their feelings," said sophomore Pedro M. Pereira. "The students are desperate," he said...
...February 1986, Boesky profited as part of a far-flung insider scheme that involved Investment Banker Levine and at least three others. Named in the SEC complaint are Robert Wilkis, formerly at Lazard Freres and E.F. Hutton; Ira Sokolow, once with Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb and then with Shearson/American Express; and David Brown, formerly of Goldman, Sachs. The trio have given up a total of about $3.5 million in illegal profits and fines. Two weeks ago Sokolow was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on criminal insider- trading charges; the other three have pleaded guilty to similar...
Harvard Conversation One: The Casual Pass Conversation. Participants are moving in opposite directions and are looking at the sidewalk with occasional upward glances for safety purposes. They inadvertantly recognize each other at a block apart, but the awkwardness of trying to express acknowledgment from this distance is too great. Both participants instantly stare back at the sidewalk in unconscious humiliation, feigning ignorance of the other's presence until the distance is closed to approximately 10 feet. At ten feet they can pretend to have just happened to look...
...September the Soviet weekly New Times reported that Jacob Segal, a retired East Berlin biologist who is unknown to Western AIDS experts, claimed that the virus originated in biological-warfare experiments at Fort Detrick, Md. Segal's allegation resurfaced in Zambia, then in London's Sunday Express, which cited support for the charge from Robert B. Strecker, an internist in Glendale, Calif., and John R. Seale, a British expert in venereal diseases. Strecker, who has written that the AIDS virus could have originated in either a natural or an artificial combination of viruses, dismisses the biological- warfare angle as "just...
...estimated $10 billion. The glittering centerpiece: their new $1.5 billion Battery Park City project, part of a vast new chunk of Wall Street waterfront created on 92 acres of landfill in Manhattan. Among the companies ensconced in Olympia & York's elegant copper-and-granite towers there: Merrill Lynch, American Express and Dow Jones...