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Unlike the electricity squeeze, the tight market for gas has less to do with misguided government than with classic boom-and-bust economics. In the late '90s, as the price of gas mirrored oil's downward spiral, few banks or drillers were willing to risk the capital to hunt for a practically worthless commodity. Now that the price has rebounded, the West Texas oil patch is hopping, with more rigs and prospectors hunting for gas than since...
...like to say that I stopped, that I learned my lesson and never again played a computer game way, way more than is healthy, but I can't. Instead, I graduated to the harder stuff: Tetris, of course, Hearts, Doom, Bust-A-Move3. By then I was also doing console games--PlayStation and Nintendo 64, mostly, with some GameBoy thrown in for maintenance--and had involved my innocent wife as a co-dependent. In fact, she was the first one I hooked when I was recently turned on to a free game called Alchemy...
...walking up Madison Avenue and coming in the opposite direction is a family from Omaha, Nebraska, mother, father, three children, walking five across, taking up the whole sidewalk, so that anyone who wants to get by must either trudge into the street, hug the wall of a building, or bust through like a fullback on third...
...break this losing cycle, I think we'll bust out," Delaney-Smith said. "We're not a bad team...
That often gets overlooked, and it's a shame because investors can really make a killing in bust-ups. I'm not talking about AT&T, by the way. That's a bust-up with problems, not the least being that it will take a numbing two years to get done. But Ma Bell's latest split makes the subject topical, especially with WorldCom's having just announced a split as well. I'm not talking about letter stocks either. Those are bust-ups in name only. Management of companies with a tracking stock still answer to the parent...