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...some sort seemed almost inevitable. Propelled by favorable economic news and a wave of multibillion-dollar takeovers, stocks had soared more than 1,000 points since the 1987 crash. But by last August some Wall Streeters were clearly worried. Noted Donald Stone, a floor specialist for Lasker, Stone & Stern: "I've been on the trading floor for 39 years, and I've never seen the market go up so fast for so long without a major break." Yet the bulls kept on running. Just last Monday the market closed at a historic peak of 2791.41, its fifth record high...
...Japanese draw their living from ivory -- as traders, carvers and merchants. But the import trade is controlled by a few. Two men, Takaichi in Osaka and Kitagawa in Tokyo, have accounted for as much as half the ivory entering Japan in recent years. Kitagawa, 47, is a stern man who presides over an industry in turmoil. He was twelve when he was introduced to what has been his family's business for nearly a century. His showroom, scanned by video cameras and kept moist by humidifiers, features a towering ivory pagoda and cases filled with ornate carvings. His computers track...
Seeing is also a subject that Cliff Stern (Woody Allen) takes seriously. A documentary filmmaker, he is driven not by God but by the demands of an unyielding conscience to make his camera -- his eye -- bear witness to the inequities of his careless time...
...them, Eriksson (Michael J. Fox), refusing to participate and trying to rescue the girl. She is murdered in a fire fight, and ultimately Eriksson, despite threats to his own life and the indifference of his commanding officers, succeeds in bringing charges against his sometime buddies. They receive, at last, stern punishment from a court-martial...
...known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker devotees alternate five-card stud with games like Hold 'Em and Crazy Pineapple. Warns a stern sign: EACH PLAYER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING HIS OWN HAND...