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Adding former Bull Horace Grant and Isaiah Rider to the team, Lakers fans were optimistic for another smooth run to the NBA Finals. Jackson had successfully tamed Dennis Rodman, transforming the former Detroit bad-boy into another cog in his well-oiled triangle offense that yielded six championships to the Bulls in the 1990s. Surely, he could handle Rider and tap the tremendous talent beneath his troubled past...
...billion in endowment, give or take the GDP of a couple of island nations here and there. Our last president, Neil “Take the Money and Run” Rudenstine, did a really good job of fundraising and was lucky enough to preside over a big bull market that gave us that 19 followed by nine zeroes...
...against not only blacks but also unionists and anyone else who posed a threat to the established order. Rather than issue orders directly to Klan-connected thugs like Robert Chambliss, the organizer of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, the Big Mules used intermediaries like public-safety commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor. His brutal tactics produced the shocking television pictures that forced the reluctant Federal Government to intervene on the movement's behalf. As King's aide Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker once said, the battle would have been lost "if Bull had let us go down to the city hall...
...current environment feels a lot like that. And so far there has been no cathartic sell-off, just a steady exodus, mainly from tech stocks. Market watchers would like to see capitulation--a panicky selling spree that flushes out all the worrywarts and sets the stage for the next bull market...
...sure, much of the lost money was the easily coined spoils of a long bull market. In that sense, all a lot of people really lost was the casino's money. Still, it's causing consumers to pull back somewhat. Retail sales went negative in February, a third drop in five months. Consumer confidence is at more than a four-year low. Any further market losses could multiply the gloom exponentially because, with the NASDAQ at a 2 1/2-year low, the casino's money is about gone. The next dollar lost for many will be money earned at work...