Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look for quick learners," Moses says, adding. "The problem with some Harvard graduates who are proctors is that they think they know everything--they may not brother to study how things have changed since they were freshmen...
...newspaper is an unconstitutional price for exercising First Amendment rights." But Michael Missal, a lawyer for the Securities and Exchange Commission, said, "We don't expect every journalist to disclose all financial relationships." Instead, he explained, the Government's case is aimed specifically at efforts to grab quick profits triggered by foreknowledge of a particular story. A similar case, under investigation by the SEC, involves several CBS employees who allegedly exploited awareness of an upcoming negative story on the commercial sugar substitute NutraSweet by engaging in transactions that presupposed there would be a drop in the stock price...
...their mother in Spain, he has very little else in his life but singing, rehearsing and singing some more. He has four houses scattered around the world, but his real home is a Mystère-Falcon 20, which jets him from gig to gig. "Everything has to be quick for Julio," says Martinez. "Once he thought the water was too warm in his Miami pool. I offered to turn down the thermostat, but he said that would take too long. We had trucks dump five tons of ice into the pool...
...quick, slick hair groomer is the wave of the future...
...after decades of nationalized industry. A majority of the new offerings are in the hands of life insurance companies, pension funds and banks, and chunks of the rest have not been sold. Speculation in the issues has been rampant as shareholders bought in, held briefly, then sold for a quick profit. The fact that relatively few investors have participated in ownership of the companies worries Thatcher's Conservatives. Without millions of shareholders to contend with, a new Labor government might have an easier time shifting back to state control...