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Akio Morita, 62, could isolate trouble spots and improve efficiency.
There are even more esoteric branches of the options market, such as "covered calls." Here, through distortions in the market, an investor can occasionally own the rights to buy a security at one price and sell it at a higher one--a guaranteed profit which Cabot calls "premium stripping." Harvard...
At the same time, wide cultural and social gaps persist. Few G.I.s speak German, and many lack a high school education. On the other side of the fence, racial discrimination against black U.S. soldiers by West German bar, restaurant and store owners crops up all too often. The military'...
All this is wry social comedy, marvelous in its authenticity. But there is a harder side to Pym, an acute knowledge of the heart's foolishness, of the forces that isolate and diminish the aging, of the helplessness of the poor and the unlucky to alter the course of...
Four granddaughters of more or less the same age rowdied about the house. They were two sets of sisters whose personalities were distinct enough but who formed until midadolescence a tribe more formidable than any single member. The novel's effective but highly unusual narrative voice reflects this collective...