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...George is Xavier McDaniel [Seattle Supersonics' forward] with hair, very little at that. George is like a bear that never came out of hybernation," Jim Masland says...
Last week Wall Street seemed to get the message. In rapid-fire announcements made on the eve of congressional hearings on program trading, six major securities firms -- Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, PaineWebber, Bear Stearns, Kidder Peabody and Dean Witter -- announced that they would halt index arbitrage for their own accounts, at least for the time being. With the exception of Bear Stearns, which will stop all index arbitrage, the firms will continue to execute such trades for customers who request them...
...Just bear with me," he said. "Your dollar starts here. Right now, it's of no use to anyone, because it hasn't been spent yet. But the government moves quickly to rectify that situation"--magically we appeared on the pitching deck of a naval vessel--"by giving your dollar to defense contractors to build war materiel...
...most Israelis seemed to support Rabin, some critics charged that the Defense Minister had needlessly risked war with Syria, which has troops stationed within firing range of Maydun. Rabin, moreover, had launched the Maydun attack without consulting the Cabinet, which caused several ministers to complain that they could not bear responsibility for an operation that they had not approved. Taking full responsibility, Rabin retorted that the siege was well within his portfolio...
...such, he represents one of the salient trends in modern American music, the fusion of the pop vernacular with the mainstream classical tradition. He is not alone: Rock Musician Glenn Branca writes raucous symphonies for electric guitars, and the Chinese-American Lucia Hwong brings a cross-cultural sensibility to bear on her wistful New Age musings. But although Davis' orchestral music may contain improvisatory sections reminiscent of jazz, it is carefully controlled and expertly planned. Imagine Ellington's lush, massed sonorities propelled by Bartok's vigorous whiplash rhythms and overlaid with the seductive percussive haze of the Balinese gamelan orchestra...