Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar $3 million fee for "investment advisory services" went from Boesky to the Los Angeles brokerage firm Jefferies & Co., headed by Boyd Jefferies, 56. That company specialized in quietly assembling large blocks of shares for corporate raiders outside the purview of the New York Stock Exchange. In that role, Jefferies & Co. almost always had advance knowledge of any important takeover deal. Lawyers familiar with the SEC say the regulatory agency is looking very closely at how such relationships could lead to illegal insider trading...
...Paul Kirk called the "hub, heart and capital of the South" offered the party $15 million in public and private funds as bait. The ^ choice also reflects the Democrats' renewed efforts to appeal to Southern voters, who unseated five Republican Senators last fall and who will play an important role in 1988 with a first-ever regional presidential primary...
...Britain's Channel Islands during World War II. The narrative is full of cinematic echoes. There is a real Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and a fake ("Heini Baum, Jewish actor and cabaret performer from Berlin and proud of it"), both of whom suggest James Mason in the title role of The Desert Fox. There is an Allied intelligence agent living hazardously as a German officer; Christopher Plummer lounged through just such a role in Hanover Street. A heartbreakingly young and beautiful Englishwoman (already played by Deborah Kerr, Julie Andrews et al.) is caught up in the action, as such tales...
Reports last fall from the College Board commission and the National College Counseling Project recommended that educators reshape the role of the guidance counselor and start advising students earlier. Harold Howe and others argue that the counseling system needs to be more thoroughly a part of school and not the ancillary service it often is. "Good college counseling begins to work in the seventh grade," insists Herbert Dalton Jr., an admissions officer at Vermont's Middlebury College and an NCCP director. But what about the money for enhanced efforts? Counseling jobs have been easy targets in times of tight budgets...
...overdose did not seriously threaten his life, and at week's end McFarlane, still hospitalized under observation, was expected to recover completely -- and eventually to resume testifying about his central role in the sale of arms to Iran. Police nonetheless concluded that McFarlane, 49, had attempted suicide...