Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Securities and Exchange Commission snared Dennis Levine two months ago in the biggest insider-trading case ever, jittery Wall Streeters were sure the scandal would spread. Last week it did. Robert Wilkis, 37, until June a first vice president of E.F. Hutton and at one time with Lazard Freres, and Ira Sokolow, 32, a former vice president of Shearson Lehman Bros., were accused in a civil complaint drawn up by the SEC of conspiring with Levine, 33, a former managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert, as part of an insider-trading ring. They allegedly enriched themselves by using...
...leaders fear that the decision will nonetheless be a devastating blow to the efforts of homosexuals to win social toleration. They have been on the defensive anyway against a public backlash spurred partly by terror over the spread of AIDS. Homophobes "want us to go back into the closet," says Jean O'Leary, executive director of National Gay Rights Advocates. "Now the Supreme Court has even made the closet unsafe...
Rumania has been hard hit by the disaster at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April. After the accident spread radioactive fallout across Eastern Europe, the European Community banned imports of crops and livestock from the region for three weeks. The embargo slashed the Bucharest regime's foreign-exchange earnings and forced the cash-short country to miss several million dollars in debt payments to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other Western lenders...
...this year, Robb, a son-in-law of Lyndon Johnson, attacked the Democrats' traditional focus on racism as the cause of black poverty and on welfare programs as a way to alleviate it. At last week's session he again charged that the welfare system "may be subsidizing the spread of self-destructive behavior in our poor communities...
...cold capsules and Teldrin allergy medication in Houston and Orlando. Two weeks ago, medical investigators discovered that two residents of Auburn, Wash., had died as a result of swallowing toxic Excedrin capsules. Bristol-Myers quickly pulled Excedrin capsules off the market nationwide, but last week Auburn's cyanide scare spread to yet another brand of pain-killer. During a random check of a pharmacy in the Seattle suburb, Food and Drug Administration officials found poisoned capsules of Anacin-3, made by American Home Products. Within a day, the State of Washington imposed a 90-day ban on the sale...