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...Obviously, if the government of Nicaragua were to misbehave in extreme ways, to renege outright on its commitments or to invade its neighbors, that would radically change the situation," he admitted. But he hastily added, "We don't anticipate that...
...Tigers or the Crimson have either won outright or shared each of the past 16 Ivy League crowns, a streak dating back to 1971, when Penn took the top spot. Since that time, Harvard has claimed 11 championships, Princeton eight...
...quite so "dried-out," crotchety, and inept at driving as those we find in Mr. Morris's hackneyed portrayal. My own Jewish grandparents, who live in Fort Lauderdale, the very belly of Mr. Morris's beast, are actually quite capable drivers and, strangely enough, have even shown signs of outright altruism and intellect. I hope that their virtues might serve as a counter-example to the underlying theory of Mr. Morris's diatribe. As to the other theory proposed in the piece, that which seeks to find a connection among such concepts as banks, stinginess, and "paranoid, bigmouthed, incredibly pushy...
...Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have imposed daily limits on how much the prices of stock-index futures can fluctuate. But even the Brady task force says it would prefer to let the marketplace make its own decision about portfolio insurance, rather than try to ban it outright. As Robert Gordon, president of Twenty-First Securities, puts it, "You can't outlaw a strategy...
...debating the Waldheim furor, some Austrians have displayed an insensitivity toward the President's Jewish critics that has sometimes curdled into outright anti-Semitism. Michael Graff, secretary-general of the People's Party, was forced to resign last month after he told the French magazine L'Express that Waldheim had "no problem" unless he could be proved to have "strangled six Jews single-handedly." On the other hand, in Vienna last week, three neo-Nazis interrupted a nationally televised ceremony honoring Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal with repeated shouts of "Murderer!" When the program's host asked the audience to show...