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...policing the stock market, it clouds the issue of who deserves more authority on the next go-round. So it was with the recent arrest of 46 illegal stock promoters in New York. The FBI, U.S. Attorney, Securities and Exchange Commission and National Association of Securities Dealers collaborated to knock out a ring of hustlers who use high-pressure sales tactics to dump inflated stocks on unwary investors. Who was in charge? "That's a hot potato," an official confides...
Work and play in Amity, Contentment, or Benevolence!/ Thrive without calamity, resentment or malevolence!/ You're filling out a crossword when you hear a friendly knock./ You say, "Come right on in! We never use the lock...
Last week's presidential and vice presidential debates introduced the nation to a new phenomenon in national politics. Instead of trying to score a knock-out punch with a witty insult or a derogatory swipe at a rival's character, the candidates are now attempting to appear as amicable as possible. They insist that they are actually good friends and that the differences between them are purely ideological, not personal...
...press him on the point, inquiring why, then, it makes the pipes at all. This sends him into a mumbling frenzy. Eventually he offers that "They make pretty nice flower pots." Besides, he argues, Graffix doesn't even make that many; most of the ones you see are knock-offs...
...confident that nobody would try to scare him out of his rights. We live in an era, after all, in which Fatty Arbuckle's departure in disgrace from the film industry would be accompanied by a fat book contract and an arrangement with Hard Copy. Anyone tempted to knock off this society's leading corrupters simply wouldn't know where to begin...