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...Short Circuit...
...absorber," a half an hour price floor that will go into effect on the Standard & Poor's 500 index whenever it drops on the Merc by the equivalent of about 96 points on the Dow Jones average. Under even more stormy conditions, if the Dow drops 250 points, a "circuit breaker" would halt trading for one hour on both the Big Board and in the Merc's S&P futures...
...blacks got a brief ride on the B-movie circuit in the '70s (Shaft, Superfly), and Hispanics got short shrift, even as Mexicans were streaming into California to tend moguls' gardens and kitchens. When Latin actors did seize center screen, it was in art-house fodder like Alambrista!, Zoot Suit, El Norte and Crossover Dreams. These films meant well, but they rarely did well. They staggered under the weight of their liberal messages like a postman with the A.C.L.U. on his route. So many good intentions were riding on these films that they became morality plays, long on the uplift...
...marketing boys are having a field day. It's billed as "The Battle in Seattle" and "The War at the North Pacific Shore." Closed-circuit pay-per-view deals, cablevision, network television, international satellite link-ups. Even "Up Close and Personal" segments on such soon-to-be American sports heroes as Dutch winger, Ruud Gullitt. He takes it one game at a time...
British authorities subsequently clamped down at home by banning alcohol sales in stadiums and installing closed-circuit TV monitors and metal detectors. No use: the rowdy element among the fans -- mostly young men who labor in manual trades -- kept up its nasty ways in incidents around England...