Word: street
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...stride" while conceding that "such events would be more palatable if we had more confidence in NATO's operation overall." I beg to differ--the failure on the part of the CIA to distinguish between the address of a suspected Yugoslavian arms agency and the Chinese embassy down the street would be more palatable if we had more confidence in the CIA's intelligence...
...four-hour shifts collecting money for the Starlight Foundation outside the cinema. They had a name, NYLine Countdown to Star Wars, and 17 staff members, including a media-relations liaison, a sponsor-relations coordinator and a treasurer. They had a permit from the city, a hotel room across the street for showers, a pay phone hooked up to take phone calls from radio stations, and a tech-support van broadcasting a live webcam pointed at the theater. This, I assume, was to prove the old saw that the only thing more boring than sleeping out for Star Wars tickets...
Republicans are muttering about a securities rule that's putting a crimp in the GEORGE W. BUSH juggernaut. Rule G-37 prevents Bush from accepting much Wall Street money. It limits how much can be contributed by brokers and dealers in the public-bond business to state and local officials who can influence who gets that business, including Governors and mayors. The restriction applies to anyone who does bond business as well as the firm's top executives, plus...
...Bradley posted a hefty $4.3 million in the first quarter, and will do even better in the second: Word on the street is that he could report as much as $8 million or $9 million, and Gore supporters are worried that he could top the vice president's take. Bradley finance chairman Louis Susman refused to speculate beyond "more than $6 million," but Bradley will clearly have the cash to be a contender...
...called tightening bias would mean Father Fed has his finger on the rate-hike trigger -? which of course, to the markets' pricked-up ears, will be a strong signal that the Fed is taking inflation seriously again. That itself may be enough to push up rates on the Street, and indeed, such a virtual rate hike may be just what Greenspan has in mind to cool off the economy without taking a policy plunge. Welcome to the Goldilocks economy, where everything, at present, is just right. And where the slightest rustling in the forest can get everybody thinking bear...