Word: tappings
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Instead of turning as usual to institutional lenders for such a large quantity of funds, A.T. & T. sought to tap a different source of capital: millions of small investors who save their money for special opportunities. The company offered a highly complex mixture of debentures, rights and warrants to buy stock. Countless investors did not understand the package, but enthusiastic professional traders immediately bid the warrants to a premium on the New York Stock Exchange...
...long shoreline of Indonesia. Their expanding expeditions have already spent well over $100 million, and the cost rises steadily. The gamble, they figure, is worth the price. So the big rigs throb day and night as crewmen drill deep into the continental shelf. They are all racing to tap the same treasure-an undersea source of oil that is far from the dangerous uncertainties of the Middle East and close to the great Japanese market. To make it even more attractive, the oil is "sweet crude," relatively free from pollution-producing sulfur...
...must approve the new recognition won by black artists. But as artists, they dislike the white man's current celebration of them merely because they are black. As one artist put it: "The black artist is a man, baby, not some kind of plastic superman you can make tap dance to Whitey's tune." Said another scornfully: "If they want black art, just take a canvas, paint it black, call it Nigger Number One, and they...
...program originated at BBC Television's Second Network. "The very simple thought I started from," said BBC-TV Director of Programs David Attenborough, "was to get on the screen the loveliest things created by European man in the past thousand years. The key decision was to tap Kenneth Clark as guide and commentator. It happened almost by accident, as Clark tells it. "They wanted advice about a series-perhaps on the history of art-and took me to lunch. By accident, the word civilization was mentioned. I experienced what Godfearing people of an earlier age used to describe...
Referring to restrictions on the admissibility of wince-tap evidence, Kirk said, "I would like to have all the powers of electronics at my disposal. I think it's time we started fighting crime with something other than a quill...