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...confidence index took a dive for the second straight month, reflecting new fears about the job market. And Thursday, the Commerce Department struck with the news that consumer spending rose by only 0.1 percent in July, down from an already anemic 0.5 percent in June. Both reports sparked triple-digit Dow selloffs on Wall Street, with Thursday?s pushing the index below 10,000 for the first time since April...
...That messianic Cisco news - with a boost from the housing report - produced a three-digit Dow rally and a proportionally larger one on the NASDAQ in the first half-day of trading Friday. Now, it is August, and it did look like rain in New York, which means the "big money" is nowhere the trading floor these days. But those in there investing are clearly feeling a little better all of a sudden about what they put in their portfolios going into a weekend...
...fraud who faked the trances he fell into. "People here avoided him," says 63-year-old Thenavai, grimacing through teeth stained black by years of chewing betel nut. "We all knew about his character. But outsiders believed he could cure them and give them winning four-digit numbers...
...Even if Shanmugavela did exploit the gullibility of the outsiders, some part of him must have been in thrall to the goddess's dark power. After making the offering, police sources say, Shanmugavela fell into a trance in the makeshift Kali temple and intoned a four-digit sequence, these numbers the twisted legacy of a woman's life. Michael drove straight to a betting shop and put down a few hundred dollars, carefully repeating the sequence. The numbers were, of course, losers. Had they been the winning numbers, would the sacrifice of Carolyn's life have been any less...
Beginning in mid-August, everyone accessing HOLLIS’s electronic resources will need to use their University personal identification numbers (PINs) in place of their nine digit University I.D. numbers...