Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the crash. The most widely practiced form of program trading, index arbitrage, has been directly linked to at least two post-crash market plunges, despite new rules designed to limit its effects. All the while, critics have blamed a handful of cash-rich investment firms for turning the stock market into a gambling casino and scaring away small investors...
...myself. Anyway, we're not done yet. I still have to show why you need to donate that dollar instead of spending it. You see, if you donate it, Harvard will be able to invest it here"--we reappeared on the pitching deck of the ship--"by buying stock in the defense contracting firm. If, on the other hand, you choose to spend it, your dollar will wind up here"--we reappeared in the steamy jungle--"in the hands of the drug king...
...just this desire to be on the right side--or at least not on the wrong side--all the time that makes the Council the laughing stock that it is. An effective student government, however, can't play it so safe, so often...
...matter how much stock the First Lady put in Quigley's advice, the astrologer is certainly fallible. According to a friend, Quigley had been predicting for months that a major earthquake would rock San Francisco on May 5. She was out of the city on that day, which may or may not show that she takes her own forecasts seriously. But May 5 came and went with nary a tremble -- except perhaps on Quigley's personal Richter scale. That was the last day of blissful anonymity for the First Lady's astrologer...
Political analysts chalked up the poor showing of Roh's party to overconfidence and its habit of fielding candidates on the basis of party standing rather than electability. The cloud of uncertainty produced by the election caused panic on the South Korean stock market, which plunged nearly 26 points, to 618.73, its largest one-day drop ever. But many South Koreans seemed pleased at the prospect of at last having a counterbalance to one-party rule. Said Han Sung Joo, a political science professor at Seoul's Korea University: "The government will just have to make the necessary concessions...