Word: joined
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...sense, however, Big Bang is already under way. As a warm-up to deregulation, the London Exchange on March 1 inaugurated Little Bang by inviting foreign firms and British banks onto its trading floors for the first time. The move spurred a wave of foreign invaders seeking to join the action. Tokyo-based Nomura Securities, the world's largest investment firm, and New York City's Merrill Lynch, the biggest U.S. broker, have already become Exchange members. Some 30 others plan to do the same...
...raise $1 million to fight the initiative. The proponents have already raised $550,000, and they say they will counter any blitz from the opposition. The initiative, which got on the ballot with more than 1 million signatures, is a good bet to pass. If so, California would join six other states (Nebraska, Illinois, Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and Georgia) that have English as an official language. Similar English-only efforts are already under way in 15 other states, including Florida, New York and Texas...
Callon is not alone. Surfing, the quintessential California pastime, which seemed to crest two decades ago, has attracted beaches full of new (and once lapsed) fans this summer. Stats are elusive, since only the diehard board cowboys join local clubs. But listen to beach-shop owners, and there is no doubt that surf's up as never before. "We're seeing a whole new crowd," says Gary Cimochowski, owner of the Brave New World, a supply store in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. "Young guys are taking up the sport, and older guys are coming back...
From Houston comes the clear voice of Alcestis Oberg, space author: "I protest the graying of NASA, the aging of thought, the middle-aged acquiescence to discouraging circumstances, the paralysis of spirit and the stagnation of vision." We should join this courageous woman...
...failure of Howe's mission, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher intended to hold her lonely line against meaningful sanctions at a three-day meeting of leaders of six Commonwealth members (Australia, Canada, India, the Bahamas, Zambia and Zimbabwe). Arguing that sanctions will not work unless the industrial powers join in applying them, she hoped to buy time until at least mid-September, when foreign ministers of the European Community nations complete deliberations on the subject in Luxembourg. If Britain remains out of step on sanctions then, Thatcher's Cabinet seems likely to split sharply on the matter...