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Regula says he fell in love with the 688-acre Rancho del Cielo when he visited in 1990 and Reagan taught him how to build a notched-wood fence. It's hard to find a discouraging word about the project--who wants to be a grinch when the Gipper is ailing? The tightest-fisted among us would not want to turn around and see Rancho del Subdivision--though in this case commercial development seems a tad unlikely, given the rugged terrain 2,000 ft. up a narrow, twisting seven-mile road. But Paul Pritchard, president of the National Park Trust...
...This time around, says TIME's Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec, it was more important what Alan Greenspan didn't say to Congress. "There was nothing like the 'irrational exuberance' line. Things are going well, and he could have killed it. But he didn't." Not that the Grinch of Wall Street has suddenly gone pie-eyed over the invincible new economic order. Bristling slightly, he insisted the Fed "is not, as some commentators have suggested, involved in an experiment that deliberately prods the economy to see how far and how fast it can grow," Greenspan said. "The costs...
...Alan Greenspan aspired to be the Grinch who stole Wall Street's Christmas, he spoke up too late. The Federal Reserve Board chairman's warning of "irrational exuberance" in stock prices braked the market for just two days before investors stepped on the accelerator again, sending the Dow Jones industrial average into uncharted territory. So brokerage and investment-banking firms and their employees are whooping it up with perfectly rational exuberance: they are closing the books on their most profitable year ever. Year-end bonuses will surpass even those of the best years of the junk-bond infused, too-much...
...Houston), is really here to sell the miracle of star quality. In his gorgeous silver three-piece suit, Washington makes niceness sexy. His fellow teachers in this charm-school film are Houston, with her 60 beautiful teeth; old pro Jenifer Lewis as the requisite sassy grandma and, in the Grinch role, Gregory Hines, his magnificently phony smile romanticizing each act of venality...
...Grinch once stole Christmas. And sometime early yesterday morning, another thief stole two large Christmas wreaths from outside two Plympton Street bookstores...