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Some people object that the urge to fend for oneself in as aggressive a manner as possible is basic human nature. This is not so. It is all a matter of human conditioning and any conditioning can be de-conditioned...
...come from the English satirical tradition, but beneath this veneer the American grain runs deep: he knows his way intimately around the moral and physical landscape of the U.S. middle class. Sheed relishes the ridiculous but champions the sane and normal. His protagonists are ordinary guys desperately trying to fend off the world's idiocies and evils long enough to define themselves and do the decent thing. They rarely succeed completely. Solitary Baseball. The fourth-generation writer in his family, Sheed was ?orn in London, the son of Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed (of the Catholic publishing firm Sheed...
Anxious to populate and develop Siberia and determined to fend off Red Chinese incursions, Russia is turning to Japan for capital and technical assistance. Dazzled by all the timber, iron ore, copper, manganese, oil and diamonds so close across the Sea of Japan, the Japanese now refer happily to Siberia as "virgin soil...
...broker executing a transaction to split his commission with other brokers, in this case with Merrill Lynch. Give-ups have long been under SEC fire. The agency contends that such fee splitting means that brokers' commissions are unduly large on big-volume deals. In their battle to fend off more drastic changes in fee structures, the New York and American stock exchanges recently agreed to outlaw give-ups as part of an overall cut in commissions on big trades...
...offering its own proposal, the Big Board hopes to fend off an even sharper cut in commissions proposed by the SEC, which contends that today's rate schedule is too high. The regulatory authority would cut fees on orders for more than 400 shares, starting Sept. 15. Much to Wall Street's embarrassment, the SEC has shown in a month of Washington hearings that brokers generally give up most of their commissions on big block trades. The money goes instead to other brokers, who perform unrelated services for the customer, such as research or selling mutual-fund shares...