Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answers to those questions, like everything else about this increasingly interdependent global economy, are spectacularly unclear. There is no longer any dispute about whether the U.S. stock market had a bout of the Asian flu in recent months. But even if stock markets continue to bounce back as they did for much of October, the question remains whether the rest of the U.S. economy--and Europe's, for that matter--is about to be sucked into the Asian vortex. If so, that could well guarantee an American recession. And even if the economy shrinks slightly--a condition we are learning...
...would ride it out. "I don't think the economy is capable of having a deep downturn now if monetary and fiscal policies remain sound," says John Snow, chairman and CEO of transport giant CSX Corp., echoing the sentiments of many of his peers. "There is not a huge stock of inventories to work off. We've gone to a just-in-time type of economy. A quarter or two of shallow recession or reduced growth is all I see, and when that is finished, I think you will see that the rest of the world is starting to recover...
...start-up whose first product, a rich virtual world called Microcosm, proved too unwieldy for today's Web and has yet to be released. But CEO Larry Samuels had one edge over his rivals: his company wasn't (quite) bankrupt. Last spring, in a set of cash-free stock swaps, E.C. acquired both the Palace and OnLive Technologies, whose audio software lets multiple users talk live over the Net. In August, Samuels relaunched the Palace--and started giving the software away...
...last month, Schiffer talked briefly about quitting modeling to concentrate on her acting career. Romijn is already distancing herself from her modeling background. "I don't like modeling that much," she says. "It's been a great trip, but straight print modeling is so mindless." How far has the stock of modeling fallen? Kate Moss once dated Johnny Depp, and Cindy Crawford was married to Richard Gere; Romijn's husband is John Stamos...
What happened? Where have all the flowers gone? Whither the revolution? Is it all just fern bars and stock options, breast implants and cappuccino frappes from here till eternity? Well, it's kind of like your parents (whom, thankfully, you did not kill, despite Jerry Rubin's urgings) tried to tell you: if you weren't so damned self-absorbed, you might learn something...