Word: gotten
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...former chairman of Citicorp, the largest U.S. bank, observes, "I have great trouble in knowing the difference between insider information and a very fine research report." On Wall Street, says an SEC official, "knowledge is power is money. It's worth a fortune." Deciding whether that fortune is ill gotten is one of the regulators' most forbidding tasks...
Same Time Last Year: The Crimson has gotten off to a faster start in 1986 than last year's NCAA runners-up Harvard squad. After four games last season, against the same quartet of opponents of Brown, Yale, Princeton and Army, Harvard was only 3-1. The team had scored 22 goals and allowed...
...sleeps as many as 900 men. Alston's luck went bad after he lost his job as a security guard last July and then had to leave his apartment after a dispute with his roommate. "When I first got to the shelter," he said, "I wondered what I had gotten into. I had never been in anything like this -- the odor, the dirt, people all over the floor. Then I realized I had no choice." Pride prevents him from telling his mother in South Carolina about his situation. "I'm going to get back on my feet first." Rachel Hanson...
Opponents of the proposed law, who have called it an invasion of individual rights, have gotten their arguments backward. What right is more basic: to indulge in a personal pleasure that injures anyone in the vicinity or to breathe clean air? The proposal would disallow smoking only when other people are involuntarily affected--in workplaces employers and employees could still agree to set aside areas for smoking. In places where passersby have no choice but to breathe the air, it is hardly unreasonable to prohibit an activity that presents such a known hazard to the public health...
Zionist leaders are mistaken, however, if they believe that they have gotten away with this grand endeavor. The superpowers, despite the "moral" and other support lent by the U.S., have their own interests in the Middle East. The Arab-Israeli conflict serves as a great chessboard, a weapons testing ground, and the focus of the struggle for intelligence and precious resources. It is not the interest of either to allow the other's proxies to win the incessant wars, so there is no real hope for a military solution. Israel's great tactical superiority is neutralized, while the population clock...