Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agency favored by some to become a superregulator is the Federal Reserve, but the Chicago exchanges oppose that move on the ground that they would no longer have their own advocate. At present, the CFTC sticks up for the Chicago markets whenever the SEC tries to fence them in. Earlier this month the CFTC approved two new forms of stock-index contracts -- the first authorized since the crash -- bringing the total number to 18. The Chicago Merc hopes to get approval soon for a futures contract to be based on the Tokyo exchange's Nikkei 225 stock index...
...have been unimpressed by the incremental steps ((toward reform)) taken thus far." Wisconsin's William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has introduced legislation that would impose ^ many of the Brady group's recommendations, including tighter margins and joint supervision of futures markets by the Fed, CFTC and SEC...
...track, Tim Harte is the team's fastest miler with a personal best time of 4-min., 13-sec. Brian Cann has proven to be competitive in everything from the mile to the 5000 meters. Mayer is the team's leading sprinter, with times of 10.8 seconds in the 100 meters and 22.3 seconds in the 200 meters. Freshmen Peter Wilensky and David Son provide much-needed depth in the sprinting events. John Koenigsknecht, John Mee and Eric Rahe will run for the Crimson in the middle-distance events...
...Roffe and '84 Olympic GS Gold Medalist Debbie Armstrong, could do no better than twelfth and 13th. Now came Fernandez-Ochoa. "I already felt the medal in my pocket," she said later between sobs. It must have been her hotel key, because she charged too hard and fell 20 sec. into the run. Her tumble gave Schneider the gold. The silver went to a sentimental favorite, Christa Kinshofer-Guthlein , 27, of West Germany, who won a silver in slalom eight years before at Lake Placid...
...lunch. But as she glided up to the starting line for the 500-meter sprint at Calgary's Olympic Oval, American Speed Skater Bonnie Blair felt confident, even though minutes earlier her rival, the powerful East German skater Christa Rothenburger, had set a new world record of 39.12 sec. Blair glanced at the stands, where a score of rooting family members were clustered around heartening banners (GO, BONNIE, GO). Moments later, she burst away from the line in one of her best starts, covering the initial 100 meters in 10.55 sec. "My first turn wasn't as good...