Word: stocking
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After a week of wild electioneering--and equally wild slips and slides in Taipei's stock market--the final tally provided an emotional release. "I am overwhelmed by the victory," said Hsiao Li-hsin, 30, a legislative assistant who stood among the mob that crowded the streets outside Chen's party headquarters. "I'm going to stay here all night and all tomorrow morning." Police had closed the streets to traffic for blocks around the victory party, which filled the air with confetti, firecrackers and the occasional outburst of song. "I'm going to sleep well for the first time...
...acquisitions is a six-minute pilot for a claymation series called Rotten Fruit, about an English band whose members curse at one another. You don't need much of an idea for a six-minute show. But for that idea, the writers got $10,000 and a slew of stock options. "For clients who want to do something different and keep ownership, it's an incredible opportunity," says the writers' agent, Peter Micelli of CAA, one of many agents who began pushing Web deals a few months...
...compound in the desert, you'd try to talk him out of it. Right? You'd probably have no luck. Cult members lose their ability to think rationally--an impediment that usually recedes about the time disaster joins the ranks. Way too late. Make no mistake: brainwashed tech-stock lovers are in the same mess, only nobody is trying to talk sense into them. Friends, and Grandma too, have all set up quarters in the same compound...
Cambridge resident Fred Reese criticized the minimum restriction requiring depositors to buy at least $250 worth of stock...
Members of the community also say they feared the sale of public stock would leave the bank open to takeovers...