Word: peralta
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...because a shoeshine boy had offered him stock tips. The story may well be apocryphal, but in the decades since, shoeshine boys have become a kind of insider's measure of how a market's doing. In the main shopping center in London's Canary Wharf financial district David Peralta is one such oracle, though not because he hands out investment tips...
...Peralta, 30, works at a double-seater station and charges just under $8 a shine. Clients had warned him months ago that this year would be tough, he says, "but after that, no problem." A few weeks ago, though, Peralta noticed a change in the way his clients' feet moved. Customers began to say, "they can't talk right now, they have their mind on something else, or they just work on their BlackBerry," Peralta says. "It can be a pain for me, because when people are stressed or moody they tend to fidget and I have to grab their...
...said a 1985 world championship chess match that was ended unjustly and prematurely "was the beginning of my political career." Kasparov was an underdog in chess politics. Now he's an underdog again, this time in Russian politics. Let's hope he is not playing Russian roulette. Poch Peralta, Manila...
...said a 1985 world championship chess match that was ended unjustly and prematurely "was the beginning of my political career." Kasparov was an underdog in chess politics. Now he's an underdog again, this time in Russian politics. Let's hope he is not playing Russian roulette. Poch Peralta, MANILA...
...history of big-wave surfing, documented in Riding Giants, a film directed by Stacy Peralta that opened nationwide last week, goes back a half-century. Its pioneer is Greg Noll, a stocky Californian nicknamed the Bull, who, with a small group of friends, began surfing big swells off the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, in the 1950s and '60s, riding waves up to 30 ft. high. But with the boards and techniques available then, it was not possible to go much higher. In the '70s and '80s surfers instead sought to conquer challenges on smaller waves with a range...