Word: interesting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...much business they bring in or how successful they are, are paid the same. It was an unlikely place for an oddball like Boies--How many Cravath partners spend vacations at Las Vegas craps tables?--but the firm had the clients and thus the cases that could hold his interest...
...president of the Berlin magicians' club Zauberfreunde, reports that "more and more grandparents and parents are calling me because they want to know where their grandchildren and children can learn conjuring tricks." Barmann's colleague Wilfried Possin, the head of a magicians' organization in Frankfurt, attributes this surge of interest to Harry Potter: "The books have brought our trade into the limelight...
When Alan Greenspan merely suggested that he was open to the idea of cutting interest rates a couple of weeks ago, the stock market went wild: the Dow posted its third biggest single-day point gain; the tech-laden NASDAQ truly soared, rising a record 10.5%. Deep into a bear market, was Greenspan trying to stanch the slide...
That's it. No serious discussion of whether adjusting interest rates to influence stock prices makes sense, whether it has ever really been tried, how it might work, what problems it presents or how Greenspan would or should approach...
...Greenspan kicked off the Clinton legacy in 1992 by selling the incoming president on deficit reduction, and in 2000 he'll be the gatekeeper for Bush's tax cut. This is also Greenspan's slowdown - he started it off himself with six interest-rate hikes that ended last spring, and if the soft landing gets ugly, it'll be Greenspan's shame, not Clinton's or Bush...