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...other hand, registration and control of the sprawling market, which in terms of trading activity is many times larger than the stock and bond markets combined, could become an administrative monster. Testifying before the Senate Banking Subcommittee, Anthony Solomon, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, conceded that it might be helpful to require banks and brokers to report large-ticket trading transactions in Treasury obligations. But he ruled out as unfeasible a proposal to regulate the "thousands and thousands and thousands" of trades. Mark E. Stalnecker, Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary for domestic finance, said that the Drysdale case...
...conducting public opinion surveys in Israel. U.S. polling organizations also do not always insist upon having the names and addresses of persons interviewed. The questions attempted to elicit political views and probe Palestinian attitudes toward Israelis under conditions in which the respondents would feel they could speak freely. The "monster" question, based on colloquial Arabic expressions, was part of an effort to analyze attitudes and prejudices and ascertain to what extent these may have changed since...
...early 20th centuries with a current admixture of dread and regret. What many Englishmen said after the war (and still say, to some degree) is that savage, sprawling America was amusing enough when it was a bulky, sleeping animal, but now that it has grown to a global monster, civilization will go to the hogs. This is the dark side of the days when Oscar Wilde pranced about the States making a show of bemoaning cowboys and bad manners. It was all very funny, in its time...
...first to settle among the penguins, though, were French colonists organized by Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who wrote mournfully of the "vast silence broken only by the occasional cry of a sea monster." The French were building a tiny fort in Port Louis on East Falkland in 1764; the British reappeared the next year and began creating a settlement in West Falkland called Port Egmont...
...places like Big len Pub about the time the 8070 Wisconsin fans all decked out in red sweaters of coarse "served" an opposing goaltender right out of the link and into the locker room at the Dance Country Memorial Coliseum, the White Country Memorial Coliseum the White domed monster that Coliseum the White domed monster that uses out of the semi rolling Madison landscape...