Word: mini
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Which is not to suggest the Fed sat on its hands Wednesday. The half-point cut, thoroughly expected by the markets, did spark a "buy-the-rumor-sell-the-news" mini-slump, but clearly this was not the abject disappointment that a quarter-point drop in the bucket would have been, and the next month should be relatively happy one on the Street. After taking back that roundly criticized (mostly in hindsight) May half-point hike in January, Greenspan has now done it again, lopping off another half-point, and stands ready to pull a February surprise just like January...
...over determined to bring him to book for crimes he is alleged to have authored. And his fight to evade prosecution appears to have taken its toll on the 85-year-old general, who only last weekend spent a night in the hospital after suffering what doctors called a "mini stroke...
...occasions in the 1990s, Aquino and Sin called people onto the streets to defend the new constitution. The reason: Fidel Ramos, Aquino's successor, was allegedly trying to amend the charter to allow himself a second term. Aquino and Sin didn't like that idea, and they used a mini-People Power movement to stop it. Their rallying cry: the constitution has to be respected...
After the inhabitants of the mini-booths come the convention's real bottom-feeders. Wandering the halls alongside the buyers (and the dogged press hounds) are hustlers who can't afford any real estate but who are nonetheless determined to pitch their wares. I encounter a Rod Stewart look-alike in imitation snakeskin pants and a boating hat. Velcroed to his arm is a drop-dead gorgeous, svelte young Asian woman poured into a minuscule shiny black rubber dress. He introduces himself as "Flashman" (though when I encounter him a few hours and several beers later he fesses...
...from Chicago, who has spent a small fortune taking a booth to sell "Exposé," her public-access show in which she "interviews celebrities while dressed in go-go boots, short skirt and 'Flashdance'-homage crop-top." Billing herself as " a hot blonde with a masters degree and a mini-skirt," she explains that her "groupie girl wardrobe" belies her intellect. I peruse the list of "stars" she has interviewed so far and recognize just one: Kevin Cronin, lead singer of REO Speedwagon, which last had a hit in 1982. This show will be a tough sale...