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...ignored, and traders began to express concern that a "wall of fear" might start to build on itself. When the Dow dropped 350 points, the first circuit breaker kicked in, around 2:35 p.m., and trading was stopped for 30 minutes. "It was eerie," says an exchange clerk. "I was shocked when I heard the bell stop trading." It was the first time circuit breakers had been triggered since their introduction after the 1987 crash. But the break seemed to unnerve traders. The market reopened to another wave of selling. The second break came less than an hour later...
Quincy House polling-station clerk Ed Samp suggested that although a student may choose to register in Cambridge rather than at home, that "doesn't necessarily mean that with that there is going to go an interest in local politics...
...When markets started to go against them, these types often doubled down. When the markets continued to go against them, as happened in Hong Kong last week, they borrowed even more. And when the selling persisted, I would get a cheerless call from John, my brokerage group's margin clerk. He would say, "Your client has until 2 p.m. to get enough money on to meet his margin call before we sell him out." I would then call the ne'er-do-well and urge him to send any collateral he had. Sometimes he sent stocks, and I would cashier...
Holland and star Jennifer Jason Leigh were both sympathetic to how Catherine gets caught between her father and her suitor Morris Townsend, an ambitious clerk who loves Catherine for her family's wealth. "We wanted to play the tragedy, the admiration and the jealousy between these...
...papers came from Lex Cusack, a former law clerk in Connecticut who claims he found them among documents belonging to his father, Lawrence Cusack, a New York City attorney who died in 1985. Though the documents had been authenticated, Cusack claimed, by handwriting experts (and many had been sold to collectors for a total of some $4 million), the more the journalists looked at them, the more the papers began to look fishy. Last spring Mark Obenhaus, the free-lance producer working with Hersh on the TV documentary, noticed that one letterhead dated 1961 carried a ZIP code--before...