Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...investor psychology, it has turned circus-freak ugly. Not a serious buyer in sight. Cash is piling up in money funds, which stand at a record $1.8 trillion. Cash at stock mutual funds equals 5.3% of assets, up from 4% in March. Yet to bulls, these stockpiles represent buying power ready to push prices higher. "I've never seen so many people on Wall Street talking to so many other people on Wall Street trying to figure out what's happening," confesses John Manley, a market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney...
...actually a fantasy only vaguely based on the facts of the case--a distinctly postmodern fantasy insistently exploiting the paradox that De Sade is a victim of sadism as wretched as any he might have imagined. Other matters are also ironically explored: What is freedom; What is power--that sort of thing. The film's creators--director Phil Kaufman, writer Doug Wright (adapting his own play)--seem to think they have made a black comedy. But Kaufman, who displayed a gift for sexy literacy in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, here succumbs to an unbearable heaviness of spirit. His approach...
...City may be winding down its season, but at least one of the show's fashion statements is demonstrating staying power. When Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) this season started sporting a nameplate necklace, that signature of '80s teen style suddenly began appearing again on women of all ages...
...started up in eastern Canada, Air Canada responded last fall with sharply reduced fares on some routes. When the Competition Bureau, a federal consumer watchdog, ordered Milton to stop price cutting on five of those routes, Air Canada hit back with a legal challenge questioning the bureau's constitutional power to unilaterally restrict fare changes. The case is winding through a Quebec court. Air Canada dived into hot water again in October, when a corporate official sent voice-mail messages about the airline's profit forecasts to select stock analysts. The stock plunged the next day, outraging investors not privy...
...unlikely this will happen anytime soon, according to Melissa Shore, a senior analyst at Jupiter Research. "The reason proprietary exchanges work with the big automakers is that they dominate the marketplace and suppliers have to come to play," she says. "Small businesses still don't have enough power or money to make that happen...