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...also bring greater peace of mind to investors who leave cash and fully paid securities in their accounts. Brokers are supposed to keep customers' cash and paid-up stocks separate from their own assets, but Phillip Loomis, general counsel of the SEC, says that cash and stocks "occasionally" vanish from customers' accounts. The SEC recently accused one brokerage firm, Meyerson & Co., of pledging customers' paid-up stock as collateral on bank loans...
...after Navy had upset the field there, the magazine ran a banner headline over its story that read-CHAMPIONSHIPS MINUS THE CHAMP. The cover showed a montage of coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside. Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson at Henley, and according to one Harvard athletic official, "Sports Illustrated has never forgiven us since...
...little bit of greenery will soon vanish from Harvard Square...
...wild turkeys. The hammock harbors this life because the river bed is periodically exposed to air, thus providing alternating wet and dry seasons that are essential to the survival of the wild, beautiful river-swamp system. With permanent flooding, ecologists warn, the system's rare creatures will soon vanish...
...participated in the strike, also finds a form of "up" as a result of his experience. In an essay about midway through the book, he pictures a structureless university-a school where all the tradition-honored rigamarole that someone decided was "education" a thousand years ago or so would vanish. This, too, is a kind of "up"-although if we were to really get up there, school itself would become a meaningless item-and Gagarin's explanation of educational ecstasy is as good as any I've seen. If you can't yet figure out what that's about...