Word: rumorings
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...just before 8 one recent morning and immediately sat down to his regular staff meeting with two senior portfolio managers and two top traders. As an executive vice president of Chemical Bank, Rolland manages $11 billion in trust funds. One of his staffers told him that there was a rumor around Wall Street that Henry Kaufman, chief economist at the Salomon Brothers brokerage firm, had changed his forecast and was about to predict publicly that interest rates were coming down...
...then there is the inexplicable rumor that there are only three words in the English language that...
...stone, in almost perfect condition, created a sensation. A rumor spread through Mexico City that the workers had found the long-lost treasure of Moctezuma II, the ill-fated Aztec Emperor who was imprisoned by Cortées. But the find turned out to be even more important. Spurred by concerned archaeologists, the Mexican government authorized a systematic excavation of the old temple. During 4½ years of methodical work under the direction of Archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (no kin), the diggers uncovered all four of the Great Temple's sides, discovering that it was a far more complex...
...rumor made its way around Poland with accelerating speed: to mark National Day, the anniversary of the founding of the Polish People's Republic on July 22, 1944, the military government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski would ease the state of martial law that has been in effect since December. In an address to the Sejm (parliament) that was broadcast over nationwide radio on the eve of the holiday, Jaruzelski appeared to be doing just that. He announced that "most of the internees will be released, including all of the women." The government followed up by promising to free...
...Congressmen were sexually abusing male pages, but conceded that none had tried to seduce him. FBI agents who have been questioning other pages-some 100 boys and girls, age 14 to 17, who run errands for lawmakers-say that so far they have encountered only similarly vague reports. "Clouds, rumor and innuendo," is the way one agent summarizes the findings to date. One likely result of the scandal, however it turns out, is a long overdue reform of the page system. House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week appointed an ad hoc committee to recommend within a month some...