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Word: hobnail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrest is only the latest in SEC Chairman John Shad's war on insider trading. Upon taking office in 1981, he pledged to come down on violators "with hobnail boots." In the past four years, the SEC has filed some 77 insider-trading suits, more than it started in the preceding 32 years. Only two weeks ago, the First Boston investment firm was forced to give up profits of $132,000 and pay a $264,000 penalty for making trades in CIGNA stock based on intelligence it had garnered from company insiders. Last year R. Foster Winans, a former Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Clouds Over Wall Street | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...itself and wanders off on pointless tangents. A subplot involving Delaney's critically ill wife (Faye Dunaway) is never integrated into the manhunt story, and Dunaway is wasted in a role that keeps her flat on her back. Mostly, she is forgotten as the gumshoe and the hobnail boots approach each other for the climactic confrontation. But Delaney is never in real danger: when Blank is finally cornered, he starts to cry. The resourceful villain becomes a whining victim. The dark alley, which promised delicious thrills, is a narrative dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Alley | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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