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...approved C.B.O.E. requests to increase its listings, and the C.B.O.E. is now asking the SEC to approve trading in put options. The timetable calls for the put market to begin in April. It will take at least until then for investors to figure out the myriad new strategies available-such as "straddles," "strips" and "straps"-that involve buying or selling puts and calls on the same stock. As Joseph W. Sullivan, the C.B.O.E.'s 37-year-old president puts it: "Like the old thing about Hallmark cards-whatever you want to say about stocks, there...
...Eligibility would be tied to clearly defined income levels. A family of four would qualify for stamps only if its annual net earnings did not exceed $6,550, after maximum deductions of $1,500. At present, families with incomes higher than $10,000 are allowed myriad deductions to get their incomes down low enough to qualify...
...thirds water, the rest nitrogen, carbon, calcium and a myriad of other chemicals-worth only about $5, even at today's inflated prices. That is the strange machinery of the human body. It appears in unprecedented and almost incredible detail this week on the Public Broadcasting Service (see facing page). Produced by the National Geographic Society and Wolper Productions, created by Irwin Rosten and narrated by Actor E.G. Marshall, the hour-long film is entitled, naturally enough, The Incredible Machine. It uses microscopy, X rays and telescopic lenses tiny enough to penetrate the body's innermost recesses...
Confronted by these myriad economic woes, Trudeau last week felt he had little choice but to opt for controls. Scarcely a month ago, popular Finance Minister John Turner focused public attention on the issue when he gave up trying to win support for voluntary wage-price restraints and quit the Liberal Cabinet. His replacement, former Energy Minister Donald Macdonald, was promptly handed two choices by ministry staffers: an outright 90-day freeze on all wages and prices, plus other rigid measures-the policy advocated by the Conservatives-or a program of selective controls combined with cutbacks in federal spending. Macdonald...
...born collaborator Mottelson (also a Danish citizen), both associated with Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute, *and Rainwater, of Columbia University, were cited for their 1940s and 1950s research on the inner structure of the atom. They helped explain oddities in the nucleus' behavior by showing that its myriad components spun and vibrated so as to distort the nucleus into an unexpected ellipsoid, rather than a sphere. These new insights helped set the stage for many of the important advances in particle physics during the past two decades of experimentation...