Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Merrill Lynch will employ mostly Japanese as traders on the exchange floor, where transactions are carried out with hand signals that are based on the Japanese language. The company's first American trader is Raymond Forbes, a New Yorker. He speaks fluent Japanese and has already spent four months at the Tokyo exchange as a trader for Nikko Securities...
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...rest of the story is known by all New England sports fans, and anybody who raises a glass with them. Bucky Dent--that little New Yorker Bucky Dent, for chrissakes!--dinked a home run over the Green Monster to win the playoff game for the Yankees...
...institution as stable and tradition-bound as Harvard Law School suddenly found its way into the holy trinity of the media--The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time magazine? Public attention has focused on the "academic feud" between conservative and radical faculty members that has shaken the foundations of the Law School. Cited as the cause of the battle are the self-styled "unholy triumvirate" of professors Duncan Kennedy, Morton Horwitz, and Roberto Unger, and the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement they helped start...
There are numerous other misstatements about Wilkinson in Nick Wurf's review. His opinion of Moonshine seems to stem more from his fantasies about The New Yorker than the book itself. Amie Wilkinson...