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Lewellyn reportedly tried an old Wall Street scam. Starting last April, he bought up 58% of the shares in Safeguard Scientifics, a Pennsylvania automotive and machine-parts manufacturer, in order to inflate the price. During a 2%-month period this year, he accounted for more than 70% of trading in the stock. In that time its value jumped from about 9 to 16 a share, although last week it closed...
...graphic descriptions of the extracurricular activity of the two men. Murphy does treat them fairly. He notes, for instance, that only rarely did either actively lobby on issues on which Supreme Court decisions were pending. And he notes that each was zealous in trying to safeguard the Court's legitimacy, a respect which hinged on its perceived uninvolvement in political issues...
...their record in protecting Islamic holy places as a justification for their control of East Jerusalem. This calm has grown increasingly tense, especially since there are reports that soldiers gratuitously lobbed tear gas into the mosque well after Goodman had been arrested. Arabs have never trusted the Israelis to safeguard their mosques--now they may take more militant action to regain control...
...plane, an amendment limiting Congress's budgetary discretion would represent a fundamental change in the nature of the Constitution itself. Many scholars today argue quite convincingly that the Founding Fathers designed the Constitution with two principal purposes in mind: to keep the political process open and accessible--and to safeguard eternal American values, like free speech. Not surprisingly, the one amendment that sought to enshrine a more timebound value into the Constitution--the 18th Amendment, which established prohibition--was resoundingly repealed 14 years after its 1919 ratification...
...architecture never overwhelms or interferes with what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on the other side of the museum-that contains the largest of the wooden figures. Enormous trouble was taken to safeguard the perishable organic materials of tribal art, the hair and wicker and wood and feathers, against the vagaries of New York's climate. Between them, the building and installation cost a total of $18.3 million...