Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Most important, of course, because the Federal Reserve under Chairman Alan Greenspan has been raising interest rates for just short of a year to slow a runaway boom. Members of TIME's board differ considerably on how soon and how hard those rate hikes will bite. But all agree on two predictions: 1) there will indeed be a slowdown; 2) the chance that it will turn into a recession is, in Sinai's word, "zero." Diane Swonk, chief economist of Bank One and president of the National Association for Business Economics, declares, "I expect this expansion to last until...
...double-teams, spin moves around opposing centers that leave them rooted like 1,000-year-old sequoias. He has finesse, but he relies on power. You can feel the beat when he plays, explosions of mass and muscularity that fill up the court like blasts of boom-box rap. Short, curt hooks. BAM! Power-jams in the paint. BOOM! Or, as in Game 7 of the Portland series, a spectacular fourth-quarter alley-oop from Bryant that O'Neal pulled from the rafters of the Staples Center. Shaq came down harder than thunder, harder than a Dr. Dre track. SHAKA...
Chicken Run's style and tone will be endearingly familiar to those who have seen Park's Oscar-winning short work. Creature Comforts (1989) attached the comments of zoo visitors to claymated lions, bears and baby hippos, with sad and hilarious results. The trio A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995) were mini-epics starring Wallace, a staid, daft suburban bachelor inventor, and his brilliant, long-suffering dog Gromit. Park has now adapted to feature length his obsession with the forlorn wit of caged animals, with the quiet exasperation of rural English life...
...Champion of a simpler, flatter tax code, Dick "Short Form" Armey (R-Tex.) listed no assets and a meager teacher's pension as his only additional income... House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) is buried in student-loan debt... Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a former investment banker, is worth over $5 million... Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), perhaps not surprisingly, is worth about $80 million... Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) put himself through law school playing the markets and made about $75,000 trading in 1999. "I wouldn't do it if it weren't profitable," he told...
...Five short days ago, both men were pooh-poohing the idea that police stood idly by as perhaps as many as 37 women were sexually assaulted in Central Park during the drunken, hot aftermath of the June 10 Puerto Rican Day parade. But after five days of unwelcome, outraged national media attention, both men had cast aside their cavalier attitudes and were miraculously transformed into the urban equivalent of white knights, galloping in (albeit a few days late) to save their city and its women from bands of marauding molesters...