Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fair trade-off?" she asked...
Through something called swap funds, also known as exchange funds, Wall Street has divined a way for some overly concentrated investors to trade one stock that has risen for a basket of stocks of equal value--avoiding any immediate capital-gains tax. A crush of financial firms, including Banker's Trust, Salomon Smith Barney, J.P. Morgan and Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette, are launching swap funds right now. They aren't entirely new. But Congress took a whack at limiting them two years ago, and they're resurfacing with a new look...
ROMANO PRODI Tapped to be European Union's chief executive, a.k.a. top banana in the trade wars...
...certification. "Radioactive wastes will be a lot safer here than sitting around at old bomb plants," said ROBERT NEILL, director of the Environmental Evaluation Group, a watchdog organization. The debris, mostly plutonium-tainted clothing, tools and sludge, will be lowered a distance equal to the height of two World Trade Centers into a rock tomb hollowed from a salt formation. Gradually the walls will collapse, burying the refuse snugly, the EPA hopes, for 10,000 years. That's less than the radioactive half-life of plutonium, so elaborate barriers with Stonehenge-like giant granite monuments are planned...
...going to happen again. But no matter how much I want to be a normal, manly, overconsuming American, I can't get myself to like dogs. I don't want to hate dogs. But I just can't imagine sharing my apartment with some dirty, dependent animal willing to trade unconditional love for canned food that, to be honest, I find a little salty. How can people love something so much that they're willing to walk behind it and retrieve its feces with their own hands every day? I have yet to meet a woman for whom...