Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That investigation, coupled with the latest arrest bombshells, has made the already nervous financial community more circumspect than ever. Some members say the Federal Government's rough handling of alleged insider traders will cause other potential informants on illegal activity to refuse to cooperate. Says a Wall Street lawyer: "Attorneys are advising their clients to take the Fifth Amendment unless they can strike some kind of deal with the Government. But the Government appears to be less interested in striking a deal than in sending Wall Street a message." One knowledgeable stock-market analyst thinks he knows what the message...
...Burda Moden magazine, the world's largest fashion monthly (est. circ. 2.5 million), the year's trendiest color is without a doubt red. West Germany's rough equivalent of Vogue is about to become the first capitalist fashion journal to publish a Russian-language Soviet edition. Burda's initial 100,000- copy Soviet offering, with advertisements from such upscale firms as American Express, Cartier and Adidas, will hit Moscow newsstands on March 3. Says Manfred Made, director of the magazine's parent publishing house: "We are thinking in long terms. We believe that the Soviet market will be of immense...
...happened before in big-time sport: a team goes into a rough schedule only to learn that a clutch of key players has been suspended for allegedly taking bribes. But rarely has any ball club been hit as hard as Philadelphia's judicial team was this month. Faced by a truly daunting schedule of cases, it saw 15 of its 105 judges temporarily cleaned off the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as a result of a federal probe into cash gifts by a local union. The cut may represent the largest number of trial-court judges ever suspended...
This old world is rough...
...features four-chord power rock played with an abandon utterly lacking in most AOR music. It doesn't matter what material Squirrelbait chooses--from an original composition sensitively entitled "Black Light Poster Child" to a cover of Phil Ochs' "Road Tape From California"-- every song on skag comes out rough and tumble...