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...fishing spots. They are among some 500 weekend rail riders on Hopkins' home computer and part of the 2,000-member association, which also publishes a newsletter. Not surprisingly, the railroads are appalled. In January the Association of American Railroads labeled the hobbyists part of a "dangerous trend." They cite 1987 "trespassing" statistics that report 582 deaths and 673 serious injuries...
Other graduates cite the ties to the school and the contacts they made while at Harvard as the most important part of their education...
Musicians cite the prohibitive cost of instruments and musical training--costs that necessarily extend over a period of several years. "If instruments and lessons are something that only middle-class Blacks can afford, then money might very possibly be a factor," Yannatos says...
Both sides of the legalization debate cite the example of alcohol, without really understanding it. Pro-legalizers say other drugs are no worse than alcohol and it's hypocritical for society to spend millions trying to ban the use of "drugs" while other millions are spent promoting the use of Scotch. Anti-legalizers say, hypocrisy or not, we're stuck with the social costs of alcohol but that doesn't mean we need to add other drugs to the vicious stew...
...investment houses choose this moment to scale back index arbitrage? Wall Street insiders cite a variety of reasons, but the clincher seems to have been the threat of one of their biggest clients, Maurice . Greenberg, head of the insurance giant American International Group, to stop doing business with companies that continue to profit from program trading. If the firms hoped their announcement would head off further criticism, they were quickly disappointed. At Senate committee hearings the next day, former Treasury Secretary Donald Regan took time off from promoting his new book to urge suspension of all index futures trades...