Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Count Jim Stone, 38, of Clarksville, Tenn., among the faithful. "I thought the market went up too fast, too soon anyway," he says. "This is, as they say, a healthy correction." With any luck, Stone and the rest of the faithful have it right. One day, though, there will come a dip that is not a buying opportunity--and you have to at least wonder if that's what the market was barking about last Monday...
...were far more likely to get through to a computer than to a human broker, electronic shops such as Schwab, E*Trade and Waterhouse bogged down when the calls swelled to double the normal traffic. Although Monday's traffic jams may have saved a few investors from selling too fast, Schwab spokesman Tom Taggart conceded that there were "no excuses" for the delays...
...President says fast track "is not dead." But it ain't exactly living. Clinton stayed up until the wee small hours on Sunday but still had to concede defeat after House Speaker Newt Gingrich informed him they were about six votes short...
...bruised "fast track" warily circles the House, looking for a few good votes, it's time to get bullish on the global economy. Namely, what's Gephardt and the Big Labor boys so nettled about? The good ol' U S of A didn't get to be the economic butt-kicker it undeniably is today by keeping to itself. A McDonald's on every street corner, a pair of blue jeans on every butt. And a little tangle of American silicon on everybody's desk. Take the 80s (please). Bushido was all the rage, Detroit was in the tank...
...movie not quite as funny, but still worth 90 minutes of your life, is slightly more topical: Hot Shots, Part Deux. Like a "fast track" rally, it's full of ex-presidents, and snuck in among the groaners is a classic swordfight between a near-bionic Lloyd Bridges (as the current CIC) and the returning villain de la semana . . . mustachioed mad chemist Saddam Hussein. The best laughs in life are cheap...