Word: reasonably
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Executives at the Monsanto chemical company must have watched the stock-market opening last week with unusual trepidation. For good reason: after the market closed the previous Friday, a federal court jury in St. Paul awarded $8.75 million to a woman hurt by a Copper-7 intrauterine contraceptive device manufactured by G.D. Searle, a Monsanto subsidiary. The penalty raised a question: Could Monsanto go the way of A.H. Robins, which was forced into bankruptcy proceedings because of lawsuits generated by its Dalkon Shield...
With good reason. Insider-trading scandals, capped by this month's sweeping fraud charges against the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, have convinced small investors that the Wall Street game is best played by the well-connected. Faced with the market's volatility in the past year, intensified by program trading, these investors fear getting caught up in avalanches beyond their control. At the same time, rising interest rates are attracting them to secure, fixed-income investments, typically bank certificates of deposit and Treasury bonds. The small-timers' absence from the stock market is dampening the averages and reducing business...
Gorbachev, by contrast, says that no nation can be secure if its neighbors -- and principal rival -- feel insecure. He calls this "new thinking," and with good reason. It is another major concession. It is an admission that the expansionist policies of his predecessors were an expensive failure...
Difficult as such a goal will be to achieve, it is easier to imagine Gorbachev moving in that direction than any of his predecessors, or any of his would-be successors. Largely for that reason, it is in the interests of the U.S. for him to remain in office and succeed in his program, as long as he is demonstrably seeking to ameliorate the repressiveness of Soviet policies at home and abroad. However, it would be premature and imprudent to admit the Soviet Union into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, not to mention the International Monetary Fund...
...things got out of control on a particular machine, its keepers could simply shut it down. But all that changed when computers began to be connected to one another. A self-replicating organism created in fun could be devastating if loosed upon the world of interconnected machines. For that reason, the Core War combatants observed an unspoken vow never to reveal to the public the details of their game...