Word: merchanting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possibilities do not exist." Seventy-four days later, the white flags of surrender were fluttering over the Falklands and victory belonged to Her Majesty's forces. Never mind that 255 British lives had been lost (750 to 1,000 for Argentina) or that six British navy ships and a merchant vessel had been destroyed. The triumph upheld both pride and principle, and with it came the so-called "Falklands factor" that lifted British spirits as well as Mrs. Thatcher's standing in public opinion surveys. For the first time in the Thatcher years, a major poll found more Britons optimistic...
Some thieves go to the extra effort of counterfeiting credit cards and embossing the stolen information onto them. A few of these are sold on the street at prices ranging between $100 and $300. More often they are used by the counterfeiters in cahoots with a dishonest merchant, who rings up phony charges that in the end are paid by the the card company. In this fashion, thieves run little risk of getting caught, at least for a while...
DIED. Siegmund Warburg, 80, energetic German-born banker who startled the closed-door world of London merchant banking with his unorthodox innovations; in London. The cultured scion of a centuries-old Jewish financial dynasty, Warburg fled Nazi Germany for London in 1934. In 1939 he founded his own trading company and in 1946 his own bank. Combining Teutonic discipline with new ideas, he managed the first U.S. corporate-bond issue in Europe and masterminded Tube Investments' and Reynolds Metals' takeover of British Aluminium...
Cornell 34, Merchant Marine...
CORNELL 57, MERCHANT MARINES 41--This game should be played in a sandbox. What is a Merchant Marine, anyway...