Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case against Boesky, the SEC charged that he had in effect contracted for insider information with Levine, who as a merger-and- acquisition specialist with Drexel Burnham had advance knowledge of takeover bids. Levine has been ordered to pay back $11.6 million in illegal profits and awaits sentencing on four criminal counts. In the spring of 1985 Boesky allegedly promised to pay Levine a percentage of profits for his tips, and subsequently the two agreed on a $2.4 million lump-sum payment. The SEC's complaint detailed a number of stock-trading situations in which Boesky had profited illegally...
...have to question the ability of our government's intelligence system." Few governments, particularly in Asia, would manufacture a story that was guaranteed to result in a loss of face with its allies. That is precisely what happened in Seoul after Kim surfaced. Says Daryl Plunk, a Korea specialist at Washington's Heritage Foundation: "It is obvious that South Korea has been embarrassed by this...
...parties, which got me to cute guys, which got me to some financial meetings of small businesses, and little by little I was able to build up a fairly decent ! portfolio." The diversified hoard includes rubies, good enough reasons for Langley to set herself up as a specialist in gemstones. For a fee, she raises the jewelry consciousness of Beverly Hills matrons. As described, Langley's own ex-husbands come across as flawed zircons...
Although construction has started, the developers have yet to be issued a permanant building permit, said City Zoning Specialist Rangit Singanyeagam. "There are some building code problems that have to be revised before a permit can be granted," he said...
...really doing its job and whether it is too soft on Reagan. Polls commissioned by the Los ! Angeles Times found that four out of five people think the press is fair to Reagan. As many believe the Government frequently manipulates the way journalists report the news. Says Media Specialist Michael J. Robinson of Georgetown University, adviser for the latest poll, "It was a surprise to us to find that the public is more likely to see the press as wimpish than imperial...