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...imprint of Pocket Books and a major player in the teen-horror field. "In the '70s it was problem novels, the disease of the week. Then it was romance novels, soap operas like Sweet Valley High and Sweet Dreams. In the '90s it's the thrillers." Hardly a blip on publishers' sales charts a few years ago, such thrillers claimed three of the top four spots on the Publishers Weekly poll of the best-selling children's paperbacks...
...sometimes lag behind, creating brief price differentials that clients spot and pounce on. Customers who correctly predict the direction of a stock can reap $250 (less commissions) for each quarter-point gain on a 1,000-share bet. But "riding a wave" is not so easy: a stock can blip upward, enticing a small trader to buy it, and then come tumbling down. "Oh my God!" cries a fortysomething beautician as she loses $250 in a split-second transaction involving Genzyme, a biotechnology firm. "This has been the longest trade of my life...
...down on whether officers called him "killer" or "nigger." King was blurry on details, but Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, says, "When the jury went back into the jury room, they had a human being on their minds, not some blip on a TV screen...
...fiscal 1992 numbers may have been "better-than-expected," but there's reason to believe that the improvement is just a one-year blip on the chart...
...question is, if this year's improvement does turn out to be a one-year blip, then what happens next year? If the deficit grows back to nearly $10 million, Knowles may face the prospect of making truly draconian cuts...