Word: barney
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With their core-investor market aging rapidly, firms such as Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney know they have to expand into online trading to find new blood. And fast. The typical client at a full-service brokerage is 63 years old. Online investors are mostly affluent, computer-savvy males whose average age is 41. The big brokerages claim they aren't worried about the upstarts and like to point out that their traditional business is still growing. But the movement to the Internet has tremendous momentum, and Wall Street knows better than to swim against the tide...
...majority leader. But he continued to show a defiant streak, sometimes to the point of crudeness. He has suggested that Hillary Clinton was a "Marxist," told Democrats in the House that Bill Clinton was "your President" and (he says unintentionally) referred to an openly gay colleague, Representative Barney Frank, as "Barney...
...success of such stores reflects a widening split in the U.S. between families with moderate and middle incomes and those earning $100,000 or more. Says Maureen McGrath, who follows retailing for Smith Barney: "Affluent consumers are becoming more affluent while the less affluent are becoming less...
Civil libertarians argue that the Decency Act, in the name of protecting children, criminalizes everything from safe-sex information to The Catcher in the Rye. Says Shabbir Safdar, co-founder of the activist group Voters' Telecommunications Watch: "They basically want to turn the Internet into Barney the dinosaur." The Clinton Administration opposed earlier versions of the decency bill but refused to hold up the entire telecommunications bill to get rid of it. Pressed on the issue, a defensive Vice President Al Gore told reporters, "We're obligated to administer the law, but we said from the start this particular provision...
...which Bob Dole is the unchallenged master, was not his strength. Nor was he entirely suited to the housekeeping details his new job entailed. By autumn, he had fallen months behind on basic House assignments, like passing the 13 regular spending bills on time. When his Democratic foil Barney Frank is asked to assess Gingrich's performance this year, he says, "I am very pleasantly surprised. He's been much worse than I expected...