Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...houses, the scandal was reverberating in an atmosphere that one eminent Wall Street lawyer described as "hysteria." At blue-chip law firms, telephones rang incessantly as worried players of the multibillion-dollar business- takeover game sought advice and protection. Said a nervous Manhattan brokerage executive: "Everyone is scared to read the newspaper in case his name might be in it." Similar jitters struck in Los Angeles, where guards carefully screened visitors to the offices of one of the country's hottest investment firms, now the focus of curiosity and controversy...
...meeting Boesky read a brief statement essentially apologizing for his actions, then handed the three- to four-hour session over to his legal advisers. They explained that the fund would be liquidated as part of Boesky's agreement with the SEC to remove himself from stock-trading activities over the next 16 1/2 months. Said Lewis Lehrman, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate in New York State, who had plunked down $1 million on Boesky's speculative endeavors but who skipped the session: "I would say that Mr. Boesky disappointed a lot of people, me included...
...least the Chicago Bears know what has technically been wrong with Jim McMahon, the most erudite of their four quarterbacks, who has written one book and read several others. He has a slight tear in the rotator cuff of his right shoulder. McMahon said, "I knew something was in there," though two arthroscopic examinations were required to find it. Missing him for six of eleven games, Coach Mike Ditka had frankly grown dubious. "Can you hear that?" whispered the quarterback, jiggling his bad handle. "It sounds like somebody's walking around in wet shoes...
...turned out the story was from The New York Times, which the White House has somebody read every morning to pick out the good stuff and boil it down for the President. That way Reagan doesn't have to wade through a lot of yawners about ballistic missiles and the War Powers...
...read the following, typed on Harvard Club stationery, with "From the Desk of Ivan Boesky" emblazoned across the top: "November 8, 1986. Dear Dean, I am writing the following pursuant with my duties as member of the Visiting Committee of the School of Public Health, which is charged with monitoring the quality of the teaching at the school. I have formulated a series of recommendations to improve the quality of your fine school...