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...Give-ups have long been under SEC fire. The agency contends that such fee splitting means that brokers' commissions are unduly large on big-volume deals. In their battle to fend off more drastic changes in fee structures, the New York and American stock exchanges recently agreed to outlaw give-ups as part of an overall cut in commissions on big trades...
Most of the movie's minor parts are played by experts, notably Pat Hingle as a sanctimonious judge who orders multiple executions, Ed Begley as a frightened outlaw, and Michael O'Sullivan as a hysterical, doomed criminal. But neither the performances nor the gundown-at-sundown story coalesce into more than a sanguinary celebration of vigilante justice. With some evocative photography and a touch of gallows humor, Director Ted Post tries to make Hang 'Em High stylish and spirited enough to swing. It swings all right-like a body at the end of a rope...
...addition, the constitution outlaws all Communists, forbids the press to print anything that might be construed as an incitement to change the established order and places all political parties under the control of a special court. The court will approve only those groups that, in the constitution's words, "contribute to the advancement of the national interest"-a wording vague enough to enable the junta to outlaw any groups that might threaten its own grip on power...
...Cogburn, a U.S. marshal who once rode with Quantrill's border gang during the Civil War, but has since become fat and 40, one-eyed and sloppy. Soon they are joined by LaBoeuf, a straight-shooting (but not always accurate) Texas Ranger, who wants to get the same outlaw for an earlier rap and a larger reward...
...notorious source of housing-cost inflation is local building codes, which often outlaw new materials and methods. Factory-assembled plumbing can save builders $200 per house, but hundreds of localities forbid it. Around Chicago, builders generally must string electric wiring inside half-inch metal pipes instead of nonmetallic sheathed cable. The extra cost: $150 per house. Pittsburgh's Ryan Homes sells a three-bedroom house for $19,300 in one suburb, but is forced to charge $3,000 more for an almost identical model a few miles away...