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...firmer footing. And since that horrendous crash, much has been done to forestall a repeat debacle. For example, brokerage firms and mutual-fund companies have invested billions of dollars in technology so that they can answer all the calls and execute all the trades on the busiest days. The New York Stock Exchange, which has never traded even 1 billion shares in a day, currently has the capacity to trade 3 billion shares. On the computerized Nasdaq stock market, capacity was a mere 250 million shares a day in 1987 and is now 1 billion shares, headed for 1.5 billion...
...older people--a situation that sends more and more youth over the U.S. border each year in search of work. And a higher proportion (more than 40%) of people under 30 live in poverty than of any other Mexican generation. In an alcove beside one of Mexico City's busiest subway stops, a growing community of homeless and jobless young men live on old mattresses and sofas. "So many guys our age, and there's no work," says Luis...
...baseball team (13-10 overall, 6-2 Ivy League) has perhaps the busiest weekend, as it hosts two doubleheaders against Yale...
Christmas Eve Day and Christmas Day are two of the park's busiest days, she explained...
Newsgroups like alt.fan.jesus-christ and alt.religion.scientology are among the busiest--and most contentious--of the nearly 20,000 discussion groups carried on Usenet. America Online and CompuServe, the two largest commercial online services, are each home to hundreds of electronic bulletin boards that offer everything from Confucian primers to Q. and A.s about Jewish dietary laws. (One urgent aol query: Is it O.K. to have a pot-bellied pig as a pet if you keep a kosher kitchen? Answer: Probably. As long as you don't plan...