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...REAGAN Administration's crusade for the screening of all federal employees for drug abuse is a policy that can be cited for absurdity before citing it as offending against basic civil rights. Could they not fire that mythic crack-smoking federal employee based on a far simpler index than drug levels in blood--like job performance...
...tried the grip, put two dents in my living room ceiling while practicing, and couldn't move my left index finger without discomfort for about a week...
...still trying to figure out what happened on Wall Street on Sept. 11 and 12, when the Dow Jones industrial average plunged a record 121 points. The drop happened a week before the stock exchanges' now notorious "triple-witching hour," the quarterly expiration deadline for stock options, stock-index futures and stock-index options. In the past, massive computer-triggered "program trading" has pushed the market up or down steeply when the witching hour struck. Now the SEC has decided to look into such selling waves whenever they occur. Whether anything can then be done about the phenomenon is unclear...
...consumers might reduce their spending enough to trigger a recession. But the stock market steadied last week, rising 3.93 points to close at 1762.65. Investors took in stride the "triple witching hour." On the third Friday of the last month of each quarter, contracts on stock options, stock index futures and stock index options all expire. In the past, the triple witching hour has brought volatile market moves, causing the Dow to rise or drop as much as 36 points. But last Friday the Dow fell a mere 11.53 points...
...issued a perfunctory statement deploring all sanctions, and State President P.W. Botha declared in a speech in Johannesburg that those who propose sanctions, "with their stupid march of folly against my country, are playing into the hands of revolutionary forces and power-drunk cliques." But the Johannesburg stock exchange index hit a new high, as did the gold stocks index, and coal stocks jumped 10% to 20% following the news from Brussels. Many South Africans seemed ready to agree with the newspaper Business Day that "the fear of imminent disaster has now ) receded." That assessment could change, however...