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...should be skeptical of Gorbachev's claims that the horrors of the Stalin regime were an aberration from Soviet socialism. After all, Gorbachev and his colleagues still glorify Lenin, who effected one-party dictatorship, the subordination of justice to expediency, and the use of terror as an instrument of control...
...system of his 26-ft. sport- fishing boat, the Miami-based writer speeds directly toward a favorite haunt, a stretch of the Atlantic three miles southeast of Fort Lauderdale. When the computer beeps to tell him he is approaching the spot, Poveromo flicks on a bread-box-size electronic instrument, his "fish finder." By sending sound waves into the water, the machine, operating much like a radar device, probes for objects beneath the surface. The findings are recorded by a stylus that moves across a rotating paper drum. At first Poveromo sees only the line that represents the ocean floor...
That is what happened on Oct. 19, contend many Wall Streeters, who blame in particular an instrument called the stock-index future. Traded largely in Chicago, such futures enable investors to place bets on the performance of New York stock indexes like the Standard & Poor's 500. The futures, first introduced in 1982, gave portfolio managers a chance to hedge their cash investments in the stocks that make up a particular index. But the futures also gave investors the opportunity to engage in index arbitrage, a practice in which they can reap quick profits from temporary, often minor discrepancies between...
...there ever been a songwriter like Berlin? Play a simple melody, he wrote, and he has: about 1,500 songs, show tunes and standards, ragtime and ballads, slow wistful waltzes and brisk up-tempo two- steps, reveries and reveilles. I love a piano, he sang, and have man and instrument ever been more symbiotic, the one giving voice to the other...
...Harvard Law School graduate said, if selected, he would lead a seven-week study group "devoted to law enforcement as an instrument of public policy, and the extent to which it is an instrument and the extent to which it should and should...