Word: muching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel strike has done so much damage that the effects will be felt long after the strike itself is just an unpleasant memory...
Premiums for Sophisticates. But there is another group of market sophisticates whose risk in dealing with puts and calls is much less. These are the people who make options available from the stocks in their portfolios. To find them, Filer, Schmidt and the nation's 20 other put and call dealers turn to investment trusts, pension funds and individual portfolio holders who intend to hold their stock for long periods. For selling a put or call the stockholder receives a premium ranging from $112.50 on 100 shares and up, depending on the price of the stock and length...
Squalling Grammarians. Traditional translations make much of Homer's epithets (Hera is "white-armed"; Odysseus generally "crafty"). Graves uses them sparingly, and sometimes ironically. The gods are treated with something less than respect; Zeus is a blowhard who hardly ever means what he says, and Hera, his wife, might be a garden-club president. When Zeus, who favors the Trojans, remarks that Hera protects the Greeks as if they were her own bastards, she replies pertly: "Revered Son of Cronus, what a thing to say!" Cartoonist Ronald Searle's illustrations wittily support Graves's wry treatment...
...revaluation. He does not ask if Finnegans Wake is a masterpiece, or a monstrous jungle of word play. Nor does he ask whether Joyce's famed "interior monologue" really reveals anything, or whether T. S. Eliot was correct when he suggested that "it doesn't tell as much as some casual glance from outside often tells...
With only four of the nine Council seats, the CCA's position regarding the January mayoralty election is much the same as two years ago. If the four CCA Councillors can agree on a candidate, then the bloc can act as an influential minority...