Word: larger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most distinguished and useful vehicle of patronage in American cultural life, the National Endowment for the Arts. Neoconservatives want to keep the NEA because they would like to run it. Paleos like Helms don't greatly care whether it exists or not; if attacking it can serve a larger agenda, fine...
Although the kidnaping was a success, two days later the larger plan appeared to be backfiring. Recognizing that the U.S. could be more easily pressured than Israel by threats against its hostages, a Hizballah front group calling itself the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth vowed to kill Colonel Higgins unless Obeid was released. Israeli Cabinet officials convened an emergency meeting to formulate a counteroffer. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin proposed an exchange of Obeid and the estimated 150 Lebanese Shi'ites held in Israeli prisons for the release of the three Israeli soldiers and all the Western hostages...
...Offer a larger tax cut for investments that are held longer, and raise the tax sharply for speculation in which assets are churned in days or minutes...
...information by trading ahead of a customer's order. A crooked broker might receive an order, for example, to buy 250,000 bu. of soybeans at $5.85 a bu. He could easily execute his own order to buy 50,000 bu. first. Later, when the market reacted to the larger order by pushing prices up to $5.95, the trader could sell his contracts, pocketing $5,000 in profits. A second illicit practice uncovered by the feds was "curb trading," in which brokers conspired to consummate deals outside legal market hours "on the curb." Many brokers even "busted" losing trades...
Experts have estimated that Oregon will take in gross revenues each year of approximately $50 million from its wagering system. With a professional team and a larger population, some predict that Massachusetts would triple Oregon's gross revenues. After funding the administration of the lottery, the state would retain about $50 million for its own treasury...