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...damage could spread to other equities as well. If a stock bought on margin falls 30%, the stockbroker typically grabs the phone and utters the dread words "margin call." It means you've lost so much money on the stock you bought with borrowed funds that you have to dig into your own pocket to meet the margin requirement or dump stocks you already own to raise the money. If you don't, the broker can sell your securities--and will he ever!--without notifying you. Given the historic level of margin debt out there, a wave of forced selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Debt Defying | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...willing to spend the time to untie his Gordian knot of symbolic acts and images--and they do indeed unknot--you'll find a maniacal, systematic and deeply imagined vision of a world as strangely alternate as Lewis Carroll's in Through the Looking Glass. If you dig into the swelling body of criticism about Barney, knowing references repeat themselves, from Joseph Beuys, the late German master of performance art and social spectacles, to video pioneer Vito Acconci to the powerful minimalist sculptor Richard Serra--each of whom dramatically reshaped the artistic landscape. Barney follows, doing what all visionary artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hallucinatory Acts | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...believe it is important to put a stake in the ground and say enough is enough when it comes to trying to dig up people's backgrounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Lying...Low | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...more scientists dig, the more hominid species they find. Most are distant cousins that went extinct without progeny; others are our direct ancestors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family: | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Laughlin said the other former Everett employees, many of whom had been working on projects at Northeastern University, have found jobs with other union contractors. Some are currently working on the big dig, he said...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yard Workers' Strike Resolved | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

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