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...Award party, which takes place at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, famously featured in "Pretty Woman." The company pioneered this showcase event a few years ago, modeling it on the famous pre-Grammy-night parties thrown by music mogul Clive Davis. A pre-event party has no shroud of loser gloom and allows for members of other tribes to visit. Kevin Spacey, for example, has no allegiance to Miramax Films, but he is a regular visitor to their parties. The reason for this intermingling is simple. One never knows when the informal bond that arises will pay off. Spacey may have...
...Worst hit - so far - is Britain, where the stench of burning hair, hide and flesh of slaughtered animals casts gloom across the countryside. By week's end at least 250,000 animals had been destroyed, and that was only the beginning. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown announced plans for the "pre-emptive" killing of every pig and sheep within 3 km of any infected farm in Cumbria and southwest Scotland. By some accounts, the massive slaughter order could doom more than a million animals. Officials even considered calling in army sharpshooters to gun down sheep - including newborn lambs and heavily pregnant...
...people really lost was the casino's money. Still, it's causing consumers to pull back somewhat. Retail sales went negative in February, a third drop in five months. Consumer confidence is at more than a four-year low. Any further market losses could multiply the gloom exponentially because, with the NASDAQ at a 2 1/2-year low, the casino's money is about gone. The next dollar lost for many will be money earned at work, not in the market...
...Greenspan and his U.S. track record than in their own economic leaders and prospects, the dollar has stayed strong amid all the rate-cutting, making U.S. manufacturers' lives even more miserable than normal. As Japan tries to export its way out of deflation, bank insolvency and crushing consumer gloom without setting off the competitive-devaluation dominoes in Asia, Wall Street - apparently more than Greenspan - fears the U.S. is in no shape to play life raft this time around...
...With the prospect of a Japanese coronary turning widespread gloom into naked fear, Wall Street tumbled Monday and Wednesday with the barest of bounces in between, and revisited some milestones of its own. The Dow, shedding more than 800 points, dipped below 10,000 for the first time since fall. The NASDAQ slumped under 2000 and officially erased two years of tech run-up. The S&P finally notched its 20 percent and joined the bear club...