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...first real crackdown against the practice came in 1909, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that that a director of the Philippine Sugar Estates Development Company committed fraud when he bought stock in his company without sharing information with the seller that soon boosted its value. But it wasn't until after the 1929 stock-market crash that Congress passed laws to limit such trading (although it didn't move to ban it outright) and created the Securities and Exchange Commission to enhance market oversight. As the stock market expanded in the 1960s, the SEC grew more aggressive in fighting...
Sweet will be playing “Mad Men” seasons 1 and 2 on the in-store television; implicit in this aspect of the promotion is a challenge to cupcake consumers to make one cupcake last through 26 hours of television without pulling a Roger Sterling-style cardiac arrest (minus the whole “adultery as cause” part) or Peggy-style psychotic freak-out. Perhaps Sweet should have consulted Don before pulling this...
...life rhetoric that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now declines to attend. This year's service, however, featured a homily by the new chair of the bishop's pro-life committee that included only the subtlest of references to abortion. More striking was the image of Biden taking Communion without incident...
...reason is the foreign presell market has dried up - foreign governments now prefer to focus on their domestic film industries. Another reason is that U.S. films are often priced too high for investors to make money on, a problem that has intensified with dropping DVD sales around the world. Without being able to presell foreign territories, everything falls apart. "Imploded is the word I would use," says Roger Smith, senior motion-picture analyst at Global Media Intelligence...
...thirst of cities clashed. The big news this week is that California finally passed legislation to overhaul the state's aging water system. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called it "an historic agreement" and promised to sign into law. "Water is the lifeblood of everything we do in California," Schwarzenegger said. "Without clean reliable water, we cannot build, we cannot farm, we cannot grow, we cannot prosper." (See a story about the water crisis in the American west...