Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need a stock of, say, 20 people who would go to bat for you, so that you're not the only person who shows up to poster in the Yard," Stewart says...
...better hope so. Motorola's recent chip-shipping problems could cut Apple's third-quarter earnings 60% (from $203 million in profits to some $80 million), and have already triggered a plunge in Apple stock from 80 to the low 60s. But Jobs' keep-it-simple strategy--G3s and now G4s for pro users, iMacs and iBooks for the masses--has been so successful that some analysts see nothing but a buying opportunity. "This is not the old, incompetent, bungling Apple," says Warburg, Dillon Read's Wolf. "This is the new Apple. They have a great strategy, and they...
...sharpened by what he has called his "unreasonable interest in surrealism and Dada." He is a great fan of surrealist Max Ernst, and, just as Ernst rearranged 19th-century engravings into his own fantastic collages, Gorey recombines the elements of forgotten Victorian novels, reshuffling the set pieces and stock characters after his fancy. One of my favorites, The Object-Lesson, is constructed along these lines, piling delicious non sequitur on delicious non sequitur, like this: "It was already Thursday, but his lordship's artificial limb could not be found; therefore, having directed the servants to fill the baths, he seized...
...Thursday night speech about an "asset bubble" ? threw the markets into an early-morning tailspin Friday. "He warned about wild fluctuations because he knew how the market would react to the bad news about producer prices, and his role is to warn investors that an adjustment in stock prices could come quickly...
...Hard truths: Planet Hollywood stock, which sat at $24 shortly after going public in 1997, is now at 19 cents (yes, cents). Founding partners Arnold, Bruce, Demi, Sly and Whoopi aren?t exactly the hip-kid draws they were at the turn of the decade. And almost any operation that in seven years opens more than 80 restaurants (including ones in Bangkok and Dubai) is bound to have growing pains; PH?s latest was a $228 million loss for the quarter that ended in December 1998. Despite Earl?s rote assertion that "Today is the first step in our plan...