Word: locked
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Certainly, some of the smaller outfits will make it--there's always room for niche players, as the rise in focused Internet funds proves--but it is likely that the business will never again have the same kind of lock on the retail investor. Jokes veteran portfolio manager Martin Whitman of the Third Avenue Value Fund: "You haven't seen a more speculative, irrational market in years. The inmates are running the asylum." The industry just hopes that, sooner or later, it can get them back in line...
MODEM CHASTITY BELT The folks at Tel-Lock understand how hard it can be to trust your kids when they're online. So rather than ask you to monitor Internet use in person, Tel-Lock provides a special telephone jack that locks with a key to block any incoming or outgoing calls. At $20 a pop, replacing all your outlets with Security Jacks (available at telephonelock.com could be costly--especially if one of your kids needs to call 911 someday. CEO Calvin Flowers calls the Security Jacks "foolproof...
...orange card taped above the lock on the door of 76 Mt. Auburn St. is the latest example of recent tensions between undergraduate and graduate members of Harvard's all-male final clubs...
...common knowledge of their species-specific traits (an irrepressible diligence so extreme and potentially psychologically hazardous that the Harvard environmental protection agency must be constantly aware of the threat of extinction to their genius), would righteously crave the wisdom of the firm hand which would put a lock on the library door Friday nights...
...lead the Sayeret Matkal, and began a string of daredevil heroics. The next year, he and Netanyahu were among the special forces who donned maintenance workers' white overalls to storm a Sabena airplane hijacked en route to Tel Aviv airport. Long fascinated by mechanical devices, Barak skillfully picked a lock to open the airplane door. In 1973 he dressed as a woman to infiltrate Beirut with a unit that assassinated three leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was a commander of Israel's famous 1976 operation to rescue hostages at Uganda's Entebbe airport. Most of his exploits remain...