Word: roundups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatively inexpensive options to buy or sell contracts, for example, and thus let investors limit their risks to what an option costs. Some can be bought for less than $1,000. In addition, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last month launched a contract based on a Standard & Poor's roundup of 100 stocks that can be invested in for about $3,000. It is already a brisk seller...
Listeners to Radio Moscow's English-language service last Monday could hardly believe what they were hearing. "The population of Afghanistan plays an increasing role in defending the country's territory against Soviet occupants," Announcer Vladimir Danchev declared in his hourly news roundup. He went on to quote Afghan tribal elders as saying that Soviet activities endangered "the security of the population of Afghanistan." An hour later Danchev repeated the same bulletin. During the next hourly summary, he reported that the Afghan population was playing a greater role in defending the country "against bands infiltrated from the Soviet...
...Americans with little or no political convictions have taken the initiative to provide the Soviets with information purely for monetary gain. Says the FBI's O'Malley: "The KGB manual says that Americans can be bought, and unfortunately it is often true, especially in difficult economic times." A roundup of recent rogues...
...roundup began only one day after Gemayel had reappointed Chafik al Wazzan, 57, a soft-spoken Muslim lawyer, as Prime Minister. In accordance with an unwritten 1943 accord, the President is always a Maronite Christian and the Prime Minister is a Sunni Muslim. Even so, Wazzan's appointment was a reassuring sign to Lebanon's Muslims, including the Palestinians, who are wary of Christian rule. During the siege of Beirut, Wazzan earned the admiration of his fellow Muslims for his defiance of the Israelis...
Casual acts of murder were still taking place as the roundup progressed. One man, who had hid in a partly bombed building, later related how he had peered through a small shrapnel hole while militiamen barged into a small shop across the street. The gunmen cut the throat of the proprietor, who was hiding inside, and then guzzled a bottle of whisky. At Gaza Hospital the staff of 22 doctors and nurses, mostly Europeans, were rounded up and marched away. As the medics passed a group of lounging militiamen, a Palestinian male nurse was pulled out of the group, taken...