Word: smalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Hillary Clinton has won New York, and we now have the saddest television image of the campaign to date. Rick Lazio, her opponent, taking his daughter with him into the ballot box - inside a Ford dealership. There's something so sad and small about the idea, about executing this grand, public, civic gesture in a private business, a car dealership, no less. Not to sound like Doris Kearns Goodwin here, but voting should take place in schools, in courthouses, settings that call to mind our common bond and the idea of aspiring to a better future. Places that call...
SUPER LIGHTWEIGHTS In a bear market, funds with a small asset base can hold an advantage over their larger counterparts. A smaller fund can trade stock and bet on up-and-comers without influencing the market. A fund with assets below $50 million raises the question of why it's so unpopular. But there are always strong performers that should not be overlooked because they're new or have done little advertising...
...John Travolta) tries to rip off the state lottery while basking smugly in his local celebrity. Lisa Kudrow is hilarious as his permanently irate accomplice, and Bill Pullman is divinely clueless as the dopey cop pursuing them. It is all, again like our politics, occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling...
...although any orange juice company is free to add the potassium claim to their own marketing materials, Tropicana has achieved a real coup by being first - in no small part because they actually wrangled a ruling out of the FDA in under 10 years...
...Well, the markets want Bush. The coming of a tight but uninspiring election has been only a small portion of the dark uncertainty that has plagued the indexes past several months. But as the day has approached and other gloomy prospects, like earnings and the euro, have receded a little, there has been more attention paid. And more rooting...