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SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt has been publicly on the attack against selective disclosure for the past 18 months, and yesterday the SEC issued a remarkably measured proposal, Regulation FD, that simply stated in essence that companies would not release any "material information" privately.
There, in remarkably few words, the Times gets to the essence of a complicated story.
GS tried to reveal the essence of communication by stringing together heavy words without the punctuation, connectives, adjectives, adverbs, and allusions we are accustomed to.
It took six months to execute a plot--involving mad scientists and personality transplants and amnesia and plastic surgery--to account for what was, in essence, the idiotic whim of some diva.
In essence, local car dealers have been able to create and maintain geographic oligopolies through the use of franchise laws.