Word: rumoring
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...countrymen would argue with that assessment. The mood in Manila, thick with political tension ever since Marcos issued his surprise election call, grew even more claustrophobic last week with the latest campaign soundings. The rumor mills that grind endlessly in the city's crowded coffeehouses increased their outpourings of speculation. Fears flew that Marcos might try to cancel the balloting, a possibility that he has never quite rejected. Opponents of the President were worried that he intended to rig the election contest even more blatantly than other votes have been altered in the past. If that happened, they warned darkly...
Nonetheless, regulators still seek to gain greater control over confidential information. Gary Lynch, enforcement director of the Securities and Exchange Commission, worries about what he calls "an unsettling proliferation of rumor activity in the marketplace." Says Lynch: "We have opened an unusually large number of investigations recently." Last week the SEC and two exchanges were studying the sudden jump in RCA stock before the merger announcement...
...event suggested that there might be truth to a rumor making the rounds of Madrid's Cuban-exile community that Sanchez was also a spy who may have been ready to spill secrets to the West. After expressing its "repulsion" at the botched kidnaping, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez expelled the four Cubans. Sanchez, meanwhile, was hustled off to an undisclosed location and placed under armed guard...
Todd Litfin could not be reached for this survey, despite repeated attempts by The Crimson's basketball staff. A rumor that he recently drowned in a bowl of Wheat Chex while watching Josie and the Pussycats could not be confirmed as this issue went to press...
...when they appeared in an unprecedented 45-minute interview on ITV, Britain's independent television network. (U.S. viewers will be able to see a portion of it this week on ABC's 20/20.) They talked soberly about their responsibilities and delightedly about their children, and resolutely scotched nearly every rumor that has been flitting around them...