Word: acapulco
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Spring break comes, and a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of fun and sun; our trip to Acapulco and Mexico City did not disappoint, even though I had my wallet stolen on a Mexico City subway platform and even though our form--with the key exception of senior co-captain Ed Boyda--was unexceptional. But thereafter, the season turns back into the wind and rain of Massachusetts, and once more we were back to playing golf in conditions that begged for galoshes and thermals, not softspikes and shorts...
...that serves as a useful lesson in understanding what happens in the IPO market when stock prices are soaring, as they are now. The lesson is this: anything goes. So-so companies are fetching top dollar from the public, while insiders and early investors head for the exits and Acapulco. Some 125 companies are waiting their turn at this sucker's market, readying some $3 billion in stock for initial sale. A record-shattering 799 companies have sold $47 billion in stock through IPOs this year...
...funky to freaky with friends takin' yo by the hand and leading you to Mars where we WANT the funk, we GOT TO HAVE that funk. No sir Sir Nose D'Voidof Funk. And psychadelics and psychadelia and even th'MOTHERS turn this mother out and acid laced and Acapulco Brick & 40 acres and a mule & hash for everyone. Casper the Holy Ghost and Bootsy's Rubber Band. Cartoons. Car toons. Car tunes...
...Matthew M. Bakal '97 says he is "hinting at past improprieties in the U.C." with his campaign sign, "Vote for Matt Bakal. He won't take your money to Acapulco...
Hillary had her own perilous journey as she sat for over two weeks watching her father -- the gruff, authoritarian and inspiring Hugh Rodham -- slowly slip away. She comes from a family so bizarrely intact that the whole group went on the Clintons' honeymoon to Acapulco. The extended family had dinner together most weekends and played marathon games of Trivial Pursuit and Hungarian rummy, a card game so byzantine in its bylaws that only close friends or relatives can participate...