Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...N.Y.S.E. has adopted a flight of funny-named trading curbs: "collars" prevent certain computerized stock trading when the Dow is up or down 50 points in a day; the "sidecar" rule gives small orders priority when the market is moving briskly; and "circuit breakers" halt trading for 30 minutes when the Dow is down 350 points and for one hour when it is down 550 points. The curbs ensure that investors have time to think. But at the end of the day, if what they think is that they should sell, their brokers, the fund companies and the exchanges...
...Wayne Berman omitted the most urgently needed reform: a ban on all paid political advertising, which would remove the burden on both political parties of coping with skyrocketing advertising costs. Let the networks, at their own discretion, provide free time for the important debates. An end to advertising would halt the need for soft and hard money and the obscene kind of influence peddling it engenders. And it would be a blessing to America's TV audience, sickened by nauseating political ads. GENE GRAMM New York City...
...chief executive" isn't a job description, it's a sentence. Gil Amelio, the self-described "transformation manager" from National Semiconductor, lasted only 17 months. He trimmed Apple's confusing product line, slashed costs and pushed new Powerbook and operating-system projects back on schedule. But he couldn't halt Apple's market share slide, from 8% to 4%. The company piled up $1.6 billion in losses, and its stock price fell by half...
...Lilith tour and the coffeehouse-pop crowd can help halt pop's garbage-chute slide. Such music, on the surface, is gentle enough to slip onto radio playlists, but down deep there are ideas, there is emotion, there is life: the haunting, melancholic feel of McLachlan's new tune Angel; Fiona Apple exploring her post-rape trauma on her heart-rending Sullen Girl; Erykah Badu imagining the life of a gangsta's girlfriend on her soulful Otherside of the Game. Other promising acts from this school are on the way. An advance copy of British trip-hop folkie Pauline Taylor...
...youths were fortunate enough to be a tobacco company, they might even find themselves rewarded for their crime with immunity from future class-action suits brought by the relatives of deceased drivers. They would be encouraged to take their act overseas and start focusing on signs saying HALT or ARRET...