Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wells (constructed between 1186 and 1300) it acquired a definitive grandeur as the sign of the Church Militant. No cathedral will fit in the Royal Academy, but other things have. To see the engrafting of a high ecclesiastical and court style from across the Channel onto the Anglo-Saxon stock, set forth in these objects, many of which are of the highest aesthetic quality, is fascinating...
Four years after the market crash of 1929, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act, barring banks from dealing in stocks and other securities. At the time economists believed losses from stock trading helped cause the widespread bank failures of the early 1930s. So it is surprising that Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is pushing to let banks deal in securities again despite the Oct. 19 market collapse and its stirring of memories...
Mason did. Despite his unlimited stock of foreign shrugs and intonations, the rabbi's son was born Jacob Maza in Sheboygan, Wis. He and his three brothers followed their father's profession, but, he confesses, "I didn't feel it. I wasn't dedicated." Assigned to a Weldon, N.C., synagogue, Mason gained a reputation for injecting humor into sermons. "Congregations would say to me, 'Rabbi, you should be a comedian.' I began to take their advice...
...some experts remain gloomy. "The recession is here. It arrived Oct. 20, one day after the sharp plunge in world stock values," says Vincent Malanga, a Manhattan economic consultant. "That kind of market decline is bound to have an adverse effect on consumer confidence. People will borrow less, spend less and save more...
...then asked for a meeting. "He spent most of his time telling me about all the contributions he was making to charity," Goldsmith recalls. "That put me off right there." He refused to have any further business or social contact with Boesky, and when Boesky subsequently admitted to insider stock trading, Goldsmith remarked of his neighbor, "Boesky crawled out of a drain...