Word: peeping
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...absorbed a new set of SEC rules approved last week, which order that analysts' pay not be tied to specific transactions, that analysts not be permitted to share draft research reports with clients or prospective clients, and that analysts more visibly disclose conflicts of interest. There wasn't a peep of dissent on Wall Street, which, unhappy with Spitzer's bare-knuckled approach to reform, is openly begging for remedies from the industry-friendly SEC. Indeed, the big brokerages uniformly embraced a follow-up investigation the SEC announced two weeks ago, in hopes that Spitzer's state office would yield...
...step with the prevailing drift in U.S. policy to settle the Middle East conflict via a land-for-peace swap would manage to turn the White House to his way of thinking. But a week ago, Sharon rolled the troops into the West Bank with nary a peep out of Peres and the White House - except to draw the line at killing or exiling Yasser Arafat...
...shoot a male in the tail like a quail") whose comic force quickly escalates musically and in the singer's volume. And he could pay cheeky tribute to friend Kaufman's failed play "The Deep Tangled Wildwood" in a complex rhyme for the song "Lazy": "I want to peep/ Through the deep/ Tangled wildwood,/ Counting sheep/ 'Til I sleep/ Like a child would." Pretty tangled. Pretty wild...
...Muslim families are still living in a row of shops in what was once Poso's commercial district. Adults peep out from behind heavy green metal shutters. Their children are bolder, and a gang of five- or six-year-old boys dressed in black vests and bin Laden T shirts, their heads covered by black balaclavas, race in and out of the grimy front room of the Laskar headquarters repeatedly shouting "Assalamu' alaikum" (may peace be with you) as they wield machetes, 30-cm daggers and loaded shotguns. Their antics draw an abrupt, approving laugh from Ichsan. Obviously the boys...
Democrats, on the other hand, are saintly paragons of bipartisanship who ought to be canonized any day now. So when Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee rammed their own favor-bloated stimulus plan to committee approval last Friday, all those preachers of partisan doomsday scarcely uttered a peep. Apparently it’s just fine to appropriate $5.5 billion for government purchases of, among other things, bison meat and watermelons—so long as the favored constituents happen to vote for the party of the jackass...