Word: froze
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...Watch system that monitors trading and alerts its experts to suspicious patterns. The exchange immediately tipped off the SEC, which built its case by tracing the trades to Vaskevitch and Sofer and then examining their telephone records. After the SEC filed the civil charges last week, a federal judge froze all current U.S. assets of Vaskevitch and Sofer to prevent the two from pulling the money out of the country. The SEC hopes to force the suspects to disgorge their profits and pay triple damages, all of which could total $16 million. While no criminal charges have been filed against...
Iran has promised in the past to help free American hostages held by pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem groups in Lebanon if the United States released Iranian assets it froze in 1979. Eight of the 26 foreigners missing in Lebanon are Americans...
When Pope John Paul II first got a glimpse of the Vatican budget in 1979, he was so shocked by its sorry state that he called an unprecedented meeting of * the College of Cardinals. Unfortunately, things have not improved much since then. Last week the Pontiff's budgetmen froze spending at last year's levels throughout the Curia, the body that governs the Roman Catholic Church...
Most of Platoon's starkest events come from Stone's backpack of Viet Nam memories. "I saw the enemy for the first time on my first night ambush," he recalls, "and I froze completely. Thank God the guy in the next position saw them and opened up. The ensuing fire fight was very messy. I was wounded in the back of the neck -- an inch to the right and I'd have been dead -- and the guy next to me had his arm blown off." He emptied his rifle clip at a man's feet, as Charlie does...
Soviet tanks pulled stranded motorists out of six-foot snowdrifts along the Vienna-Budapest highway. Daredevil Parisians skied down the snow-blanketed steps of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur Basilica. Big Ben's famous chime was reduced to a dull thud as its bell hammer froze. Packs of hungry wolves emerged from the mountains to roam through isolated Czechoslovak villages in search of food. Across Europe last week, wind-whipped masses of frigid Siberian air, often accompanied by heavy snowstorms, sent thermometers plunging to some of the lowest levels of the past quarter of a century, paralyzing transportation, closing schools, businesses...