Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controlled chaos of Chicago's commodities pits, there is no time to reflect, only time to react, to buy when the market heads north, to sell the instant it flounders. Thus the busy traders never really stopped to wonder about the unusual behavior of several new colleagues who regularly lost thousands of dollars but kept coming back for more, day after day for two years. Tom Hicks, a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, remembers one in particular named Peter Vogel: "He was real clean-cut -- wing tips, clipped hair, tie always knotted tightly. He didn't dress like...
...hope is that in extending this information to the community, it will allow us to reflect individually and collectively about how these incidents affect each of us and how we may participate in them. Let's also hope that we ourselves embrace the hopes for a just society so persistently fought for by Martin Luther King, whose day was being celebrated at the time when one of the incidents occured. The incidents described above demonstrate the need for continuous efforts to stop bigotry and racism. Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle Assistant Dean for Race Relations and Minority Affairs
...when Al Vellucci's speeches no longer echo in Sullivan Chamber, the city will still reflect the mayor's more serious achievements: Harvard's voluntary payments to compensate the city for its tax-exempt property; city government attention to the hazardous side of Cambridge's many chemical and biotechnology companies; and above all, Vellucci's contributions to the rent control ordinance and his steadfast support for that...
Economic planning seems to be in disarray. Pricing officials announced two weeks ago that state subsidies for such consumer goods as fabrics and some appliances would be modestly increased. But the plan contradicts Gorbachev's announced intention to make prices reflect the true costs of production and to curtail subsidies. Last week authorities unveiled new rules barring private cooperatives from engaging in certain kinds of businesses -- for example, selling jewelry and renting videos. Only five days before these restrictions were announced, Gorbachev had called for a "stronger cooperative movement" during...
Talbott plans to use the column as a vehicle for both reporting and taking his own stands. "While I think of myself as essentially a reporter, I have strong views on most matters too," he says. Talbott's choice of subject will often reflect his credentials as an expert in U.S.-Soviet affairs and as the author of three books chronicling the past twelve years of superpower arms- control diplomacy, but he plans to vary the scope of America Abroad. He will weigh in at times with topical examinations of news events, step back on other occasions to take...