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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smaller traders may prefer a discounter with a lower minimum commission. For example, Kennedy, Cabot & Co. (800-252-0090) -- which is not remotely the old- line Massachusetts firm its name conjures up -- charges just $20 on "odd lot" trades (fewer than 100 shares) and as little as a penny a share commission on stocks selling for under a buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles Miracle on Wall Street! | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...sweeping plie arabesques, it is masterfully danced by Trinidad Sevillano, as the adolescent Princess Aurora. David Walker's superb costume and set design also majestically frame this scene. Unfortunately, this act also includes Carla Stalling's failure as the Queen to both act and dance, and the repetition of odd, graceless flittery arm choreography by the court fairies. By the end of act one, the youthful and energetic sixteen year old Aurora has pricked her finger on Casabosse's poisoned spindle in a beautiful pastoral garden scene while dancing with four foreign princes. The Lilac Fairy saves her by putting...

Author: By Amanda S. Federman, | Title: Sleeping Beauty in Good Shape Even After 100 Years | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

FRANCES GUMM Cruella (CD: Landspeed) & NEW RADIANT STORM KING Rival Time (CD: Homestead) An hour west of us, two years ago, there were five colleges, a mental institution, a bunch of small towns, and two new bands with a lot in common: a crisp, visceral punch, a fondness for odd rhythms and offbeats, strained singing, and atonality. (Those aren't "chords" Frances Gumm plays; more like "bunches of notes.") As the two new bands started releasing singles and playing out in New England together, they both got better by sounding less alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steve L. Burt One Chord Wonders | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

White House lobbyist Howard Paster, meanwhile, has drafted Cabinet officers into a "shadow whip" system aimed at turning the undecided around. On "even" weeks, agency chiefs meet with three undecided members; on "odd" weeks, they are deployed to at least one fence-sitter's congressional district to make speeches, attract local press and provide "cover" for the lawmaker to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attention Nafta Shoppers! | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

Perhaps Rachel does not mean the question geographically. Perhaps I should answer that I consider myself a fairly liberal feminist with an odd sense of humor. Or that I grew up without a TV and therefore have a vast hole in my basic cultural knowledge...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Where I'm Coming From OK, AR, IA, MA... | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

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