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The N.Y.S.E. has adopted a flight of funny-named trading curbs: "collars" prevent certain computerized stock trading when the Dow is up or down 50 points in a day; the "sidecar" rule gives small orders priority when the market is moving briskly; and "circuit breakers" halt trading for 30 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET'S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

Be that as it may, Rice, who lives a few blocks from the restaurant, wasn't the only one who went apoplectic when the Straya California Creole Grand Cafe was unveiled, looking like an accident between a cruise ship and a strip mall. "It gives me high blood pressure," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ORLEANS: THE VAMPIRE STRIKES BACK | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

The production of As You Like It at the Agassiz is one splendid example of a working marriage between the Renaissance text and a modern aesthetic. The Arcadia of Shakespeare's Forest of Arden is shot through with visual evocations of the Victorian period, from the nineteenth-century images hanging...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: The Bard Transmogrified Shines | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

In addition to reducing special interests' power on the Fisheries and Wildlife Board and banning cruel traps, Question One would ban the use of hunting dogs to hunt bears or bobcats. Hounding, as this practice is called, "is the moral and sporting equivalent of shooting a caged animal," according to...

Author: By Piper Hoffman, | Title: How Will You Vote on Question One? | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

So Ehrenreich collars people in the hall and asks for help. "Colleagues, secretaries, whoever happened to be handy," he says.

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: CYBER Prof | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

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