Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amid the widespread Western joy over last week's freedom dance at the Brandenburg Gate, comes a more sobering realization: the postwar division of both Germany and Europe seems to be tumbling toward the ash heap of history faster than preparations are being made for whatever new order might arise in its stead...
Hussein's change of policy posed a dilemma for Jordanians of Palestinian origin. Most of them wanted to vote, but by doing so some feared they might be adding fuel to the argument of right-wing Israelis that Jordan, rather than the West Bank, should be viewed as the true Palestinian homeland...
Regan would argue that he didn't violate the tax law. (A former IRS commissioner was prepared to testify to much the same thing, but the jury was not allowed to hear this because the judge accepted the Government's argument that his views might blur the issue.) Regan's trades were part of a hedging strategy under which you buy and sell related securities at the same time. You lose on one and gain on the other, but if you've done the math right, you'll usually lose a little less than you gain. Yippee...
Sounds pretty innocent, though one might wonder why, if it's legal, Drexel and others haven't offered this appealing tax-loss service more widely...
...Government argued that Regan and Princeton/Newport did violate the tax law, but -- worse -- tried to disguise what they did by breaking up their repurchases into odd amounts at varying prices. What perhaps got Regan into the hottest water, though -- and it's kind of scary the Government might work this way -- is that he refused to provide damning evidence against Drexel and others: "Cooperate and we'll go easy on you. Stonewall us and we'll kill you." We've seen it on TV a thousand times...