Word: wayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know that the word socialism smells like the devil in the U.S., but it shouldn't be that way. The Communists expropriated the word socialism, so people now identify it with Marxism-Leninism...
...Washington should realize that the world is changing. Five years ago, who would have hoped for the extraordinary opening in East-West relations? I know that the Non-Aligned Movement, which represents some 120 nations, is often criticized, especially by industrialized countries, for its radical positions and for the way it acts in concert. But the fact remains that the Non-Aligned Movement has led to a new awareness among developing countries. The purpose is not conflict and confrontation, but dialogue...
...guaranteed." Ainslie rejects any comparison to margin trading. "We do not make it a standard policy to loan 50% against anything. We are not just lending against the object, but to an individual. At the time we loaned to Mr. Bond, he was viewed very differently from the way he is today...
...high school dropout who emigrated from England as a boy, Bond had come up the hard way, fueled by an insatiable drive to acquire, combine, take over. At 49 he was one of the richest men in Australia. He controlled an empire of assets under the umbrella of his holding company, Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd.: television stations, retailing, minerals and breweries around the world. He had even figured out a way of selling nonalcoholic beer to Muslims in the Middle East. Everything about him was on a large scale -- his ambitions, his capacity for risk, his appetite for publicity. Also...
...short fella is not so short, not quite so homely. It just seems that way because his 5-ft. 10-in., 148-lb. frame is diminished, standing, as he is, at the edge of a grove of young Paul Bunyans. He's talking to -- no, he's shouting at -- one of them. About the option play. How to execute it correctly. As he plants one foot and pivots decisively, moving his hands in a precise pattern that he's repeated thousands of times before, the young man in the football jersey barks...