Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the Reagan era's tacit approval of selfishness, an end to the glorification of greed. "Use power to help people," said the 41st President. "We are not the sum of our possessions . . . We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it . . . in all things, generosity...
Federal law requires that traders and brokers must try to get the best possible price for their customers when executing trades. But because the deals are conducted orally, illegal trades are difficult to catch. When four FBI agents masqueraded as commodities dealers, however, they were able to secretly tape-record the transactions taking place at the Board of Trade and ! the Mercantile Exchange...
...other measures the I.D.F. has employed against the uprising by blaming the Palestinians. "They force us to take guns and do things you don't like to do," he told the reservists. "We hate those P.L.O. people because they make us kill Arab children. But you must do that to survive...
When George Bush became President last week, he inherited that mountainous load, along with a 74-month economic boom, the longest peacetime expansion in the modern era. Bush, who once ridiculed Reagan's policies as "voodoo economics," must now confront both sides of the Reaganomics legacy. In doing so, he will turn for economic advice to a profession that is struggling to find new ways of understanding the unprecedented boom-and-borrow cycle of the past eight years...
...most important decisions handed down by the court in this decade," said Federal Appeals Judge William Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several thousand federal defendants who must now be resentenced. The new system means stiffer penalties for white-collar crimes, 87% of which currently end in probation...