Word: sib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Acme, who owns the local gagworks. So when Marvin gets bumped off, Roger is the prime suspect. His only hope is Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a human detective who has been burned out and bitter ever since a Toon killed his brother by dropping a piano on the poor sib's head...
...Britain's financial-services areas, including securities, Eurobonds, commodities and foreign exchange, will be governed by a series of self-regulatory organizations. Their activity, in turn, will be supervised by the Securities Investment Board, a private-sector body whose decisions are backed by the force of the law. Says SIB Chairman Sir Kenneth Berrill: "The aim in the U.K. was to get the rules applied and interpreted by practitioners, and not by lawyers." Now, even some Conservative Party members feel that a tough U.S.-style Securities and Exchange Commission is needed. Says former Prime Minister Edward Heath...