Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...caught up in the ride," Brooks says. "The business was doing very well, and it was impossible not to get caught...
Gary Ciuffetelli once scraped out a living in a machine shop, but now he's getting ready to "ride a wave," as they say at All-Tech Investment Group in Suffern, New York. Dressed in shorts and a T shirt, the 33-year-old trader stares at a computer screen linked to the 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...
While the sides battle it out in court, Houtkin plans to keep his revolution moving ahead, opening new branches and even placing computers in customers' homes so they can ride waves without getting dressed. "This is exhilarating," says 56-year-old Don Traponese, a high school dropout who earns $18,000 a year cutting hair. "I wish I could go to the races and be as successful as I am here." While Traponese has good days and bad days at All- Tech, he estimates that his part-time trading brings in about $12,000 a year. "Brokers over the phone...
...began to have trouble with her balance; her legs went numb. The eventual diagnosis was multiple sclerosis. By 1982 she could no longer ride the scooter; by 1984 she could not walk unaided. To help her out, Kresge gave her a shopping cart, which Les filled with bricks for ballast; pushing it, she could still get to the mall each morning...
BOOKS Scott Turow's Pleading Guilty is irresistible. A genial fictional view of a decaying Main Street. THEATER An Irish classic travels well to the Caribbean. MUSIC Perry Farrell's Porno for Pyros takes a wild ride. Steve Reich previews the opera of the 21st century...