Word: instruments
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While working as a vice president and senior trader for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in 1990, Daniel K. Young, 29, induced the company to sell him and a private investor the bank's stake in a $1 billion debt instrument of the Republic of Columbia, the New York County District Attorney and the Fed charged...
Young, a second-year student scheduled to graduate this spring, and George Liberatore, the private investor, bought the instrument because they knew the debt was about to be restructured, the indictment said...
When young Davidians strayed from his commands, their punishment was severe (though one survivor insisted such redress was basic "Christian discipline"). Disobedience frequently brought out the "helper," a paddle often wielded by Koresh's "mighty men" in the "whipping room" just off the first floor. The instrument left circle-shaped lesions, an inch across, on the children's buttocks. Koresh's son Cyrus, when he was three years old, once refused a command and, according to a former cult member, was starved for two days and forced to sleep on a garage floor where Koresh told him large rats prowled...
...course, out of any desire to injure America. On the contrary, out of ! the deep desire to purify, to redeem America by making it an instrument of justice. The critics do not lack for patriotism. On the contrary, they sincerely wish to ennoble America with a foreign policy of altruism. And because only intervention devoid of self-interest is morally unimpeachable, it is the only kind that a good conscience can support...
...secular humanism points to adulthood as the period in which the individual's youthful idealism is defeated by the disillusioning forces of recognized sexual roles and intellectual practicality. In the 90s, the question of sexuality includes not just gender but sexual orientation and the use of sex as an instrument in many unrelated spheres of activity. Angela Delichatsios' Madeleine explores this reality, in a manner very reminiscent of the cataclysmic sexual role-playing and use of illusion in Edward Albee plays, especially in his Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...