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...October crash had spawned more than half a dozen important investigations. One was a special three-person task force announced on Oct. 22 by President Reagan and headed by New York City Investment Banker Nicholas Brady. Its mandate: to study the market procedures that led to the crash and recommend ways to prevent a recurrence. Two other probes were started by the watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to study the extravagant volatility of stock and futures markets during the crash. Other studies of market behavior were being sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange...
...North House for example. But most SCR members say they generally attend only the formal SCR luncheons and dinners, where they are guaranteed the conversation of other faculty members. Some house masters also give SCR luncheons an added purpose by conducting house business--such as chosing which students to recommend for fellowships...
...Never recommend the Japanese basket trick when the future Queen Mother of Britain is within earshot...
...wasn't kept," explained Ramon. "I don't recommend U.N. proposals, sir, I just pass along the bill. And you also owe $25 million for miscellaneous peacekeeping expeditions...
...shown it to be the stuff of low tragedy, not high. First, the president tried to tie in a vote for Bork with a vote to get tough on crime, abandoning all pretense that the judge was a moderate. Then after the Judiciary Commitee voted not to recommend his nomination to the full Senate, Bork vowed to fight on, to bring his nomination onto the Senate floor to force a vote of the full Senate...