Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aside the data for a moment and take a walk on any American beach. Casually, discreetly, observe the flesh (this is not a gender thing; we're talking every last, ever loving body on the sand). Now, don't you think that last summer, or the summer before, or especially back in the '80s, there were fewer paunches out there that jiggled like flan? And didn't we just go through a spell where the buttocks seemed hitched to a spot just a notch or two higher up the spine...
...Putting up very little cash, Foley allowed De Roetth to buy and quickly sell shares in companies that rose dramatically in value soon after they were issued. Says Jay Ritter, a professor of finance at the University of Illinois: "Speculators like Foley are just feeding at the trough, throwing sand in the economic gears between suppliers and users of capital." Foley's spokesman strongly disagreed: "There is no law saying an American citizen can't make money in the stock market, even if he is Speaker of the House of Representatives...
While throwing sandbag on top of sandbag on top of sandbag to erect makeshift barriers against the water, some people nonetheless wondered what could be done with all that sand -- or, for that matter, the bags -- once the waters subside. The Army Corps of Engineers calculates that it has distributed 26.5 million bags through the flood area, and each has been filled with roughly 35 lbs. of sand; they can't just be left in piles all over the place...
Conclusion: if only someone had noticed Charles Keating Jr. and colleagues emerging from sand traps with suspicious ease, American taxpayers would not now be billions of dollars in the hole...
BEHAVIOR: The Sand-Trap Integrity Test...