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...National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ), the world's second largest stock market after the New York Stock Exchange. Sensing that Lotus stock is starting to climb, Ciuffetelli tells an All-Tech clerk to buy 1,000 shares. The clerk presses a few buttons on his keyboard, and the deal is automatically made for $32 a share. Minutes later, the ex-machinist sells. "Hallelujah, I made an eighth of a point!" shouts Ciuffetelli. By day's end, 58 trades later and $900 richer, he is ready to return to his family's trailer home...
Houtkin hits the keyboard, and prices for the stock of Cisco Systems, a volatile computer company, pop up on the screen. Fortunately, I'm told to ignore everything except two columns I can barely read anyway. One lists the prices that 47 marketmakers (firms like Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter) are willing to pay for Cisco. The second shows what they're willing to sell...
Kapralova's brief Dubnova Preludia Suite for piano is another strong work, dedicated to the pianist Rudolf Firkusny, who knew her in Paris before the war. In four short movements this collection of miniatures displays the Slavic influence of her teacher, Bohuslav Martinu, in its deft command of keyboard technique, sharp ear for piquant sonority and angular, accented melodies...
What becalms a legend most? Familiarity and longevity are the twin chief curses of American celebrity. Hustling Pepsi on TV -- in the foxy company of a trio of backup singers hovering over the keyboard, dispensing flash-point smiles -- may do wonders for the soda, but it does tend to sell soul a bit short. It's tough to be a genius and a pitchman at the same time, especially when the TV spots contain more concentrated energy than your last half-dozen albums...
...takes dozens of programmers years to write an operating system. Such a system controls printing, file storage, screen display and keyboard input...