Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...favored group, including Papado poulos and seven others serving life terms, is housed in A-block, the prison's maximum-security wing. Papadopoulos, now 60, whom the prison guards at first timidly referred to as "the President," resides on the second floor together with mem bers of his old regime. He conducts him self like an "Olympian god," the book says, treating his former subordinates with condescension, electing to dine in regal solitude. For a time, he kept up a correspondence with some of his former girl friends. That did not, however, stop his wife from trying to smuggle...
...Warwick announced that it has isolated a steroid in the sweat of males. Highly purified, the substance smells like sandalwood oil, which is used as an ingredient in perfumes. But that is not half its charm. The researchers claim that the steroid is a pheromone, one of a group of chemicals with scents that influence behavior in many species of the animal world. Even better, it is apparently a male sex pheromone, which has a scent that attracts females. Equivalent pheromones exuded by some female insects, for example, draw males from miles around. The Warwick team does not claim such...
There are signs that a small group of unknown investors, which rumormongers in the futures market variously identify as shady Middle Easterners, tricky Europeans and even sinister folk from Staten Island, are plotting an unscrupulous investment maneuver known as a squeeze play. If they are, the price of silver could go far higher, then plunge as breathlessly as it climbed if and when the investors bailed out. One speculator widely mentioned in these stories is Bunker Hunt (see box page 61), but he insists that he has no plans except to hold on and watch his hoard grow...
...small group of ultrarich investors could pull a squeeze. They would simply buy up so many outstanding futures contracts that there would not be enough metal available to meet demand if the contract holders insisted upon delivery of real silver, rather than being willing to turn their paper profits into cash, when their contracts expired. That would push prices into outer space on the spot market, as unfortunate speculators who had contracted to deliver silver scrambled to buy the limited supply to meet their legal commitments...
...rigid, rectangular surface." Others, like Maurice Denis, wanted to restore art to the primacy as religious utterance that it had enjoyed before the deluge of 1789: "Lord," Denis exclaimed in his diary in 1889?the year the Eiffel Tower, symbol of materialist progress, was built?"we are a group of young people, devotees of the symbol, misunderstood by a world which mocks us Mystics! Lord, I pray you, may our reign come!" The desire for coherent symbols ?religious, mystical, anything but political?was as important a part of the early modernist program as the desire to purify...