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William LeFevre, a vice president of Purcell, Graham, thinks that the Dow may crack 1400 before the bull market is over. "As for the time frame," he says, "we'll cop a plea, using that old bromide of successful Wall Streeters: 'If you're going to give them a date, don't give them a number, but if you're going to give them a number, don't give them a date...
...came under harsh scrutiny. Last week Zaccaro was arrested and ushered into Manhattan Criminal Court, where he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. An indictment accused Zaccaro of scheming to defraud during a deal in which he and a partner tried to buy five Queens apartment buildings. In a plea-bargaining arrangement, Zaccaro admitted to two specific allegations: that he had tampered with a copy of an appraisal and that he had kited his net worth to $21.6 million. He could be fined up to $1,000. There is a chance that his real estate license might be suspended...
Onstage, Price had none of the fiery, histrionic talent that, say, Maria Callas brought to her art. Instead, she unleashed a voice elemental in its passionate intensity. When Price sang the Forza Leonora's Pace, pace, mio Dio, it was the heartrending plea of a desperate woman begging God for surcease; when she cried O Scarpia, avanti a Dio! at the end of Tosca, it was a chilling curse delivered at the gates of hell. And when she sang Aida's anguished O patria mia, as she did last week, it was a radiant invocation of pathos...
...already set out to pre-emptively plug leaks. At the Pentagon's request, three news organizations-NBC, the Associated Press and Aviation Week & Space Technology, a widely respected industry magazine-held off stories about the military shuttle mission. NBC reported that it had grudgingly acceded to a personal plea from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
...Only Connect" was Forster's epigraph for Howards End, a plea to unite civilized ponds with subterranean wells of feeling. Unfortunately, he had no exact idea until age 30 of how men and women made love, a defect that Author Katherine Mansfield tartly noted in Howards End: "I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella...