Word: overnighters
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...almost giddy euphoria by the intelligentsia. Says Yegor Yakovlev, editor of the innovative Moscow News: "We are hurrying, as if walking on hot coals. We want to show, print and stage all the things that were buried for decades as quickly as possible. We want to do it overnight...
...volatility of the market is inspiring a mixture of excitement and fear, since the Dow's stratospheric level gives it a tendency to sweep up and down from time to time by 50 points or more a day. When individuals reap an overnight windfall, they can become manic and even a little careless about where to put the money next. "Clients are calling about speculative stocks that they've heard about at cocktail parties over the weekend. I'm worried about this," says Jerry Tisserand, a broker for Thomson McKinnon Securities at a branch in Evansville, Ind. At the same...
...Oliver North, Superstar. The Marine lieutenant colonel with the oh-so- earnest baby blues was everywhere last week. His face flickered in dizzying multiplicity on banks of TVs at every department store, as well as in bars and restaurants and millions of homes. While North was not exactly an overnight sensation, he completed his transformation from rather notorious White House staffer to full-fledged American icon...
...Minkow. Not only had his $100 million stock holdings shrunk to less than $6 million, but his oft announced dream of making ZZZZ Best the "General Motors of carpet cleaning" was irrevocably shattered. Once lionized as an emblem of what brash youth can do, he had become, almost overnight, a symbol of where overreaching ambition can lead...
Emergency relief official said they feared many more people were missing and possibly killed after the typhoon ripped into coastal settlements overnight...