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Computers blink, phones ring, traders frantically shout buy and sell orders in a verbal version of hand-to-hand combat. A typical day on the New York Stock Exchange...
Dale didn't look up. He didn't blink. He simply turned, and neatly took the ball away. Even then he didn't smile...
Decades have a way of crashing to a close during the blink of an hour. The '60s ended at Altamont, when a knife-and-death climax to a Rolling Stones concert showed that the decade of love, peace and music had trouble, even with the music. The '70s limped along with an inner-directed malaise until Jan. 20, 1981, when the U.S. hostages lifted off from Tehran just as Ronald Reagan was taking office. The '80s, as befits their high-flying adrenaline, may have dissipated a few years early, sputtering to an end during the stock market's terrifying final...
...Administration was grateful for the reprieve. "Congress blinked," sighed a senior Pentagon official. "But the question is for how long." Reagan made it clear that he was certainly not going to blink. "We will accept our responsibility for these vessels in the face of threats by Iran or anyone else," he insisted in a televised address last week. "If we don't do the job, the Soviets will...
...live on the per diem and stash the paycheck for when they get back to New York. "You need a nest egg in this business," says Bruce Daniels, a lead, "so you can survive while you're out trying to get . . ." -- his voice deepens and Tivoli lights blink on in his eyes -- "that starring role." Meanwhile, they double up at hotels to save money. Back in Utica (it was definitely Utica), several musicians missed the bus and had to pay their own fare to Indianapolis; they lived four to a room for the next month. Not only...