Word: client
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he walked into the Atlanta office of All-Tech Investment Group last Thursday afternoon. They greeted the day trader by name, and he commiserated with them over the news lighting up every trader's terminal: the Dow's nearly 200-point slide. He seemed to be the old client they were familiar with. No one knew that Barton was packing two handguns; that on Tuesday he had murdered his wife, on Wednesday his son and daughter; that he had just been at the building across the street, at another brokerage, Momentum Securities, where he had also started off with...
...seem simple when shares are generally rising. Strong markets can mask underlying risks, like losing more than your principal when on margin. Concerned about just that, the National Association of Securities Dealers last week began requiring brokerage firms to disclose day-trading risks and to determine whether a client is suited before opening an account. None too soon. Day traders' favorite stocks have long been Internet and other high-tech companies prized for their big price swings. Since April, Net stocks have fallen on hard times, revealing many formerly brilliant day traders to be little more than lucky novices. Unfamiliar...
Burke said his client plans to sue MIT for the diploma, arguing MIT does not have the right to revoke a graduate's diploma and that his client was denied due process...
...main services. Still, as with all free Internet services, the numbers of active user accounts are undoubtedly inflated by the ease of registering. And despite these large audiences, no one has figured out how to make any money on the free chat service, except to note that the client program commands an outsized amount of attention from active users who leave it open on their computer screen alongside other activities. Right now users stare at the AOL (or MSN or Yahoo) brand name ? presumably they can one day be persuaded to look at ads or shop online. MORE...
...while Dershowitz said he had expressed willingness to take Hale as a client when the case centered around free speech alone, he said the racially motivated killings committed by Hale's disciple Benjamin N. Smith this month have made him unwilling to represent Hale in the matter of his law license...