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...Administration moving again. Congressional Democrats, similarly, have only until the end of 1987 to answer the question that Byrd rightly poses for this year's legislative session: "Can the Democrats govern in the post-Reagan era?" By next January the 1988 presidential campaigns will be in full swing in both parties, and any new initiatives will have to be put on hold until after the election. Both Reagan and the Democrats in Congress need to get off to a solid start in the next few months. They have yet to give any real proof that they will, or even...
...species of moths and butterflies; about 100 species of reptiles and amphibians and 115 species of mammals. Among the trees is the project's namesake, the guanacaste, whose branches can stretch over an acre of land and whose trunk soars 100 ft. Spider, howling and white-faced monkeys swing through the forest canopy. White-tailed deer and peccaries (a kind of wild pig) forage in the underbrush. Jaguars, ocelots, coyotes and gray foxes roam the woods at night. Ridley turtles nest on the park's Pacific beaches. Says Janzen: "Virtually all the species that were there when the Spaniards...
...Crimson, in the fourth outing of a five-games-in-eight-days road swing, scored three goals in the first period and dominated play the rest of the way to knock off the Bulldogs (6-9-1, 6-8-1 WCHA...
...place to get fights. They would put me on last of all, and the people would be screaming when I came in." In 1982 he knocked a Nigerian named Alimi Mustafa dead as Hector. "I cry now whenever I think of that wee man, and sometimes when I swing on someone, there he is in front of me. His wife was pregnant, as mine was. Well he never knew it, but he had a son. I don't know why I fight. It's a fire in my gut. But I'll tell you something." His tone grew hushed...
Prices could swing up or down before the contract is settled on its expiration date, but because of the original gap in prices, the trader has already locked in a profit, often called synthetic cash. If stock prices rise, the arbitrager will make a handsome return upon selling the shares; the money lost on the futures side of the transaction will not be enough to offset the profit because the price at which the futures were sold was overly high to start with. In the opposite scenario, falling stock prices will cause the trader to lose money on the stocks...