Word: knox
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...more than a century the heart of the financial world was a physical place called Wall Street, where slips of paper littered the floors and shouted bids to buy and sell filled the overheated air. And the most famous repository of wealth was Fort Knox, where soldiers guarded mounds of gold bars deep inside Kentucky's rolling hill country...
Wall Street and Fort Knox are still there, of course, but their mystique is fading fast. Not even James Bond's nemesis Auric Goldfinger would try to rob the fort anymore; bullion is in a two-decade-long slump. Nowadays, real money doesn't glitter or clink. It blinks across the world's computer screens. More wealth is created--or destroyed--in an instant than J.P. Morgan could have comprehended. Net-savvy investors are reaping the rewards and assuming the risks of controlling their financial destiny...
Kuehl, a three-term member of the state assembly who was endorsed by Gov. Gray Davis, was challenged in the primary by Wally Knox, another state assembly representative...
...official results of the primary were: Kuehl, 92,298 votes (64 percent); Wally Knox, 53,045 votes (36 percent). Rego received all 32,015 votes in the Republican primary...