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...morning with lousy earnings reports, looked at the bright side of Greenspan's comments or the dark: Inventory corrections are still going on, businesses are still blanching at the thought of capital investments, and the next six months are going to be very grim indeed. In any case, stocks slid on frenzied volume all morning - the Dow was off 100 and the NASDAQ 50 by noon. In times like these, when we're still waiting for those first six cuts to show up on the economic radar, bearishness from the Fed is not exactly what we've been looking...
...Another picture for the memory bank: In a dark room in Lowell, Luci and I, in iron aprons, stand on either side of our first-born child as she holds one of our fingers in each of her little hands and is gently slid backwards into the CAT-scan machine, whose rays begin to dance before her eyes. "Don't talk, Sweetie," I say to her as she moans. "Just a minute more...
...reward us with a predictable pattern of entertaining facial expressions. Ingestion was immediately followed by 1) the grimacing pucker, 2) the horrified, double take “stare” at the item, 3) a confused period of closer inspection and finally 4) total disgust as the plate was slid to the opposite end of the table. Some indignant recipients brought their findings to the cafeteria staff (the Adams House “pink” lady). Most amazing was how many people eagerly proceeded to polish off the rest of the dessert...
...reward us with a predictable pattern of entertaining facial expressions. Ingestion was immediately followed by 1) the grimacing pucker, 2) the horrified, double take “stare” at the item, 3) a confused period of closer inspection and finally 4) total disgust as the plate was slid to the opposite end of the table. Some indignant recipients brought their findings to the cafeteria staff (the Adams House “pink” lady). Most amazing was how many people eagerly proceeded to polish off the rest of the dessert...
...cliché goes, it ain’t over until its over and Holik got the last laugh as he slid a perfect pass to Randy McKay with five minutes to go in OT to even the series...