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...receive gold, cotton, pork bellies or whatever on a set date at a fixed price, commodity options are purely paper investments giving the buyer the right to purchase a future, gambling on how much prices rise or fall. In the U.S., such options have had the tempting flavor of forbidden fruit. Since the 1930s, trading in some 100 types of options, mainly agricultural products, has not been allowed on U.S. exchanges. But in recent years some inventive firms began selling in the U.S. options supposedly traded in London (some were; some weren't). Usually business was drummed...
...clear," as the department put it, "that for the foreseeable future the island of Bikini should not be used for agricultural purposes and should not be considered a residential area." Those islanders who have been repatriated will have to be evacuated again. In the meantime, they have been forbidden to eat their home-grown coconuts, bananas and breadfruit. Food is now being shipped in from outside...
...running into each other, often at the least advisable moment. The production of 13 Rue de l'Amour at Manhattan's Circle in the Square comes creditably close to the Feydeau tempo and spirit, but it is difficult to orchestrate an arena stage to that crescendo of forbidden doors being opened and closed on which Feydeau depends...
Harris, professor of anthropology at Columbia, discussed the evolution of the "Indian sacred cow complex" in his lecture entitled "Forbidden Flesh...
...stick to the official program." He was not kidding. His instructions were enforced by pistol-toting guards stationed outside the hotel. Anyone trying to make the normal round of journalistic contacts with diplomats and other sources-or even to go to a restaurant-was stopped cold. Taxi drivers were forbidden to pick up the reporters. "They can't tell you that," Wood said to one cabby. "Oh, they can tell us anything," whispered the driver, as a guard hovered a few feet away...