Word: probings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the probe "focused on individuals and individual acts and not on the Phoenix Suns organization as a whole...
...probe of two new sets of Marine guards could have serious implications. One pair served in Moscow in 1981 and 1982. If the two had engaged in spying, the Soviets could have had access to U.S. embassy secrets far earlier than suspected. Investigators were also concerned about the familiarity with Bracy and Lonetree shown by a second pair now under suspicion. Nor was fraternization confined to Moscow. It was learned that two Marine guards in an East European country embassy returned there to marry local women after leaving service...
...Assault is a mystery story in the broadest sense of the word, an attempt to probe the enigmas of a life devoted to psychological denial. It is also a conventional mystery story. There was a reason why that body ended up in front of the Steenwijks' house, and when the key to that puzzle is revealed, moral as well as psychological tumblers fall into place. Director Rademakers is both a careful craftsman and a careful moralist, a man who has the time to pause over the ambiguous nuances of human behavior under pressure and the skill as a filmmaker...
Perhaps the more alarming charge is that Jefferies helped a customer, unnamed in the Securities and Exchange Commission's probe, manipulate the price of a public stock offering. The stock, also unnamed but widely believed to be Fireman's Fund, was languishing last May in the days just before the insurance company's owner, American Express, was planning to offer more of the shares to the public. Jefferies is accused of briefly boosting the market price -- and thus illegally rigging the price of the new shares -- by buying blocks of Fireman's stock right before the offering. The New York...
These charges also revealed the growing ability of the SEC to crack cases without the help of the leads that played such a major role in the still spreading Boesky probe. Just as important, it demonstrated the SEC's willingness to track down suspects beyond U.S. borders, a crucial enforcement step in an era of global stock trading...