Word: midgets
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Questions of Secrecy. Despite its midget size, the fourth market challenges the established structure of the securities business and puts pressure on the exchanges to reduce their minimum commissions. The Securities and Exchange Commission has nourished the fourth market by urging institutions to trade stocks at the lowest possible cost. But stock exchange officials complain that off-the-board trading in listed securities tends to weaken the exchanges' auction market, on which all traders rely for prices...
...When the world's most powerful nation behaves not with the restraint of a giant, but with the fierce pugnacity of a midget, the stage is set for atrocity," he writes...
...West writes about so well. As a toddler, she painted walls, desks and her own face with pigments blended from inks, instant coffee and Ajax. She would unexplainably put her head through a windowpane. She also plays rough, suggesting to her father "a commando course supervised by an overwhelming midget," a "Gotterdammerung written in mud, rain, and your own bland...
...that time, The Dreyfus Fund was a midget, with assets of only $2,300,000. Stein earned a reputation as a shrewd stock analyst, helping to steer the fund into rapid risers, including Polaroid. Within a few years he was chief assistant to Jack Dreyfus Jr., founder of the fund. In 1962, at 35, Stein suffered a mild stroke, but recovered with no aftereffects. When Jack Dreyfus retired five years ago to enjoy his multimillions, he turned control of the business over to his protege, the ex-violinist...
...room of Las Vegas' Sands the night her class graduated from high school. A demonstration record the year before had won her an appearance on NBC's Dean Martin Show. "From hearing your record," the star told her, "I expected some tall, zoftic girl. Are you a midget?" The 5-ft. 1-in. Karen, having steeled herself to be blasé over meeting "this 52-year-old man," found that "he was gorgeous, and I broke out in hives." Karen's voice resembles that of Eydie Gorme; she sings with a wobbly tremolo for effect...