Word: traders
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...find most of the skeleton. The arm and leg bones suggested that the dead man came from genetic stock very different from that of the Indians who have lived in that part of the country for centuries. Chatters figured he had the body of an early settler or trader...
Well, it's time to shatter that idealized myth. When Columbus arrived on Cuba, Hispaniola and other islands in the Caribbean he instituted shockingly cruel and genocidal policies which rapidly decimated the populations of indigenous Arawak Indians. He was also a slave trader, and his own words condemn him. Furthermore, the claim that he "discovered" the New World is dubious--he accidentally came into contact with a culture that had existed for hundreds if not thousands of years...
...thinking. He cautions new analysts against relying too much on technology. "I tell them, 'Don't let it become a crutch to eliminate face-to-face contact.' I want them to feel an emotional stake in this process." Like all the managers, Posner faxes his orders to his trader each morning and usually doesn't trade again all day. Eighty percent of his workday is spent on the phone to companies or meeting with executives. True to his metier, he relies heavily on corporate financial statements: "They tell me what can realistically be accomplished...
...years, first became skeptical of the archaeologist's veracity in 1978, when he found an eyewitness account Schliemann wrote about a San Francisco fire. Schliemann lived in California in the early 1850s, amassing a fortune as a banker during the gold rush (he also made millions as an indigo trader and a sometimes shady profiteer in Russia during the Crimean War). But the fire occurred while Schliemann was out of town, and a month earlier than the report said...
EAST GERMAN SPY TRADER GUILTY...