Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Efforts to police the pappagalli in the past have failed, but now the Roman authorities are taking stern action. The police have assigned 100 special cops, operating in teams at tourist spots and equipped with walkie-talkies, to pinch the pinchers, whose sleights of hand may earn them up to six months in jail or $65 in fines. But there have been no arrests so far, and on several occasions the cops have been told bluntly by seemingly beleaguered beauties to mind their own business...
However unhappy the NASD edict may make some investors, there are good reasons for it. Unlisted stocks account for at least 60% of the maddening delays in delivering stock certificates. Moreover, the Securities and Exchange Commission virtually dictated some sort of crackdown. Two weeks ago, as part of a stern warning that dealers may be violating the antifraud provisions of federal securities law if they knowingly trade shares they cannot deliver promptly, the SEC suggested that a possession-before-sale policy would be "appropriate...
...four with, composed of Paul Hoffman, Steve Brooks, Fritz Hobbes, Scott Steketee, and Andy Larkin, lost to Penn and Vesper Saturday. The four without, composed of Art Evans, Curt Canning, Cleve Livingston, and Dave Higgins--the stern pair and the bow pair--finished on Saturday behind Vesper and the Eastern Development Clinic working out of M.I.T...
...slugs lodged in his head, one in his shoulder. Few expected him to live; indeed, his life hung in the balance for days. Now, after two delicate brain operations, Rudi is out of danger and recuperating "somewhere in Italy," according to an illustrated spread in West Germany's Stern magazine. Stern's report shows that Rudi has progressed to the point where he can knock out a few croquet games each day, bat a pingpong ball around, and play with his six-month-old son, Hosea-Che. Within a few months he ought to be healthy enough...
...mixtures of molecules. He pointed out that if you have a bunch of apples, pears, and bananas all mixed up, that's different from just having a bunch of apples. This was good for one hiss from our audience expressing a preference for more abstract thinking. The lecturer's stern reply: "If you don't like fruit...