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...begin with Villa. Through most of the 1990s, he was president, chief executive officer and indirect owner of 99.5% of the stock of H.J. Meyers & Co., Inc., a brokerage firm based in Rochester, N.Y., with branch offices in more than a dozen cities. H.J. Meyers was a boiler room. Its most significant feature, according to an investigation by Massachusetts securities authorities, "was the high-pressure tactics of management continually exerted on brokers, who then used high-pressure tactics on their customers." Brokers cold-called people urging them to invest in speculative securities and initial public offerings underwritten by the firm...
Finally, telecommuting is often touted as an indirect benefit for parents of sick children. Says a New York City lawyer who occasionally works from home when one of his three kids is sick and his wife has to work: "It's a lousy way to spend a workday, but I'm glad I have a job that gives me the freedom to do it when it's essential." Several years ago, his employer started offering in-home care for sick kids, but he never signed up for the service, and he hopes he never...
...what extent are indirect claims admissible? 10 pages...
...four-member Hawaiian congressional delegation sent a letter to Kantor saying they were prepared to talk about possible "international courses of action" against the E.U. As America's only state producing bananas--most were grown for consumption on the islands--Hawaii had an indirect stake in the outcome of the banana war; because Chiquita, Dole and other producers had flooded the European market, tariffs notwithstanding, the overflow had found its way back into the U.S., driving down retail prices...
Much of the novel's success was due to the long passages of indirect discourse in which the characters reexamine their pasts and attempt to grope towards a solution. Hicks dispenses with most of these passages in the film because he does not need them. He knows that much can be said with few words, and he makes the most of it, turning Cedars into a movie about astonishing cinematography and fluid camera work. While the movie occasionally threatens to become too impressed with its own rapturousness (a problem that James Newton Howard's saccharine score does little to help...