Word: submits
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Ironically, it was a practical joke gone awry that helped bring Salomon down. In an elaborate form of hazing, Mozer reportedly persuaded a Salomon customer last February to submit a bogus $1 billion order for 30-year Treasury bonds. The idea was to shock the novice trader who received the order. But the prank backfired: the deal went through, and the unauthorized purchase landed on Salomon's books...
...interviews with Richard M. Clurman, for many years Time Inc.'s chief of correspondents, and his wife Shirley, a close friend of Clare's and a former TIME publicist. But Dick Clurman states categorically that he merely gave Martin a list of potential sources and was too busy to submit to an interview. Shirley Clurman says she spoke with Martin "for 20 minutes, maximum." Asked about the author's assertion that Clare and Randolph Churchill were lovers, Mrs. Clurman has a succinct retort: "Garbage...
...Senator Jesse Helms pushed through an amendment that added AIDS to the Immigration and Naturalization Service's list of dangerous and communicable diseases that may not be carried into the country. Currently, travelers are requested to complete a questionnaire that asks if they are infected; would-be immigrants must submit to a blood test...
...week the ubiquitous vans became a symbol of a disease contributing to the exploding cost of U.S. health care: insurance fraud. A Los Angeles grand jury returned a 175-count indictment against brothers Michael and David Smushkevich, along with 10 others, charging that they used the freebie checkups to submit $1 billion in fake claims. All told, they allegedly collected more than $50 million in what may be the biggest scam of its kind ever...
...English classes, students assemble poems, plays and essays for their portfolios. They also submit to a 45-minute creative-writing session to determine how well they perform under pressure. Mathematics is a tougher challenge for all concerned. Thus far the attempts to build a portfolio include everything from exercises in factors and fractions to mind-stretching essays on the color of mathematics and the composition of letters to Albert Einstein. But, says Ann Rainey, an award-winning eighth-grade math teacher in the Shelburne Middle School near Burlington, "we still don't know what a math portfolio should...