Word: within
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need the other one to live. Serious bids only." The listing had been up since August 26 and the bidding had been intense, running from $25,000 up to $5.7 million in just six days. EBay took down the listing, but then the copycats got to work: Within hours, four similar listings popped up ?- and were just as quickly taken down...
...results of Monday?s independence referendum are expected within days, and the result is expected to be overwhelmingly in favor of autonomy for the former Portuguese colony seized by Indonesia in 1975. Violence by anti-independence militiamen is building to a frenzy, with attacks on civilians, U.N. officials and journalists unimpeded by the Indonesian police and troops charged with maintaining order, and it may take a force without vested interests to pacify the militias. "The U.N. would probably be prepared to send in a force in order to resolve this conflict," says Dowell. "While the U.S. may not be prepared...
...blame for the surge in margin debt? Aha. Some responsibility goes to Federal Reserve boss Alan Greenspan, who complained as far back as 1996 about the market's "irrational exuberance." Yet it is within his purview to raise margin requirements above the current 50%. However, that might tick off Wall Street, which earns more than 8% interest on margin loans. (Brokers are free to raise requirements on their own, and some have.) No Fed chairman since 1974 has moved to lift the limit. Individual investors--and not just day traders--also share part of the blame. Intoxicated...
...started last year, when federal health officials proposed a system of organ sharing with less emphasis on geography. Most of the transplant community opposed the changes, wary that organs would be funneled to the larger medical facilities. The compromise by the United Network of Organ Sharing was to share within regions, rather than the nation...
...small animals being stomped to death, usually by women wearing high-heeled shoes and boots. Although there are laws against animal cruelty, prosecutors have had trouble winning cases because most of the films don't show the stompers' faces. They also have to prove that the films were made within a three-year statute of limitations...