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Wally Parker Fall Creek, Ore...
Thomas Hicks has abandoned his commercial photography business in Portland, Ore., to devote himself to trading them. Webb Williams, Exxon Corp.'s trust fund manager, spends an increasing portion of his time investing in them for his company. So does Charles Stevenson, who operates his own New York-based money management firm. Venturesome traders across the U.S. are turning an esoteric-sounding new way of investing money into one of the hottest and fastest-growing ways to cash in on the bull market: stock index futures contracts. They are akin to commodities contracts, but on nothing so tangible...
...organization's U.S. president, whispered to the woman sitting next to her. The cave man reference, they concluded, reflected a Neanderthal outlook. "To me he seemed to be saying that the only reason we're here is to create families," said Madenwald, a Republican from Hillsboro, Ore. "It was patronizing and didn't address who we are. He was talking to a group of businesswomen from around the world...
...multiple use" status. Both sides made substantial concessions. The environmentalists gave up claims to some of the most majestic sections of the Grand Wash Cliffs at the strip's western edge. Energy Fuels Corp., a uranium-and coal-mining concern, agreed to the costly process of extracting ore from the top rather than the bottom of the Kanab Creek Canyon's 250 million-year-old columnlike rock formations so as to minimize environmental damage. Says Pamela Hill of Energy Fuels: "It was like trading baseball cards...
Almost 3000 years ago, a civilization of a few thousand dominated the Lower Mississippi Valley, building elaborate ceremonial sites and establishing an extensive economics system that included trading for lead and iron ore drum as far away as Illinois...