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...dire condition of the nation's urban school systems is by now a familiar story, but some hard facts and illuminating incidents bear telling...
Sweat rolls down the players' backs onto their jerseys, which bear nicknames like "Slime," "Spuds," or "Schooner." Inside the Harvard seal is printed a "KICK ASS" instead of the normal "VE RI TAS". The game--intramural basketball; and the spirit--pure freshman...
...think it would be great to play a professional sport--to get paid for what you like to do," James says. "But I really liked working for Bear Stearns [a Wall Street firm] this past summer. The Wall Street scene could be for me. Or I may decide to become a doctor...
...dollar continued to slip even though foreign governments spent almost + $100 billion during 1987 to prop up the currency. By late December the dollar went into a nose dive. Unbeknown to most traders, though, the central bankers were quietly baiting a so-called bear trap, in which they aimed to punish speculators who had been reaping profits by consistently betting on the dollar's downfall. They secretly agreed to launch a dollar-buying binge when the currency hit a floor price, possibly at 120 yen. At first only the Bank of Japan came to the rescue. Then all at once...
...exchange, since then, has been reviewing what happened to the * prices of individual stocks in the crash. One such stock, that of the J.P. Morgan banking company, closed at 27.75 on Black Monday, but opened at 47 the next morning, an extraordinary leap in the face of a bear market. Last week, after an investigation into Morgan's erratic movements, Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, the largest specialist firm on the N.Y.S.E., "voluntarily surrendered" its right to make a market in the stock...