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Bell, a civil rights specialist, said proportional representation based on race would make legislators more accountable to their constituencies. Under the current system of geographical representation, the will of the majority detracts from the needs of the minority, Bell said...
...Stop trading General Mills, influx of orders. Stop trading Northwest Air, influx of orders," command the p.a. speakers at the Pacific Stock Exchange. But the market trend is up. Says Specialist Kurtis Kupiec: "Today the world's a better place...
...hardest hit of all last week were Wall Street's specialist firms, the traders who are charged with maintaining orderly markets. That task requires them to purchase stocks when there are no other buyers and to make sales when other sellers disappear. Until last week, a total of 52 specialist firms worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange; each handled the shares of 20 to 30 specified Big Board companies. On Black Monday, the specialists grimly fulfilled their responsibilities, buying millions of shares as prices plunged all around them. Their losses could amount to as much...
Anything less exciting might send many fire fighters packing. "A fire is quick and dirty," explains Larry Humphrey, 40, a natural-resource specialist from Safford, Ariz., who is in charge of 250 fire fighters. "I guess I don't have the patience for any other job." A 15-year veteran of forest fires, Humphrey has had only one day off in a month, but says he would keep on working for free. As he talks, nearby flames shoot several hundred feet up a Douglas fir in a matter of seconds. The tremendous roar is followed by the thunder...
Congress raised the Peace Corps annual budget by $7 million this year and is expected to add another $10 million next year, said Jana B. Sample, public affairs specialist for the New England Peace Corps. The 1986 budget stood at $130 million...