Word: thins
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...Varian also has a more dramatic worry. When the economy of a nation runs through little copper wires, when the efficiencies of IT are realized as a world of virtual transactions, virtual financial records and interconnected databases, isn't that rather thin ice? When the economy of the world's only superpower goes online, what happens if the system crashes? "The Internet is just basic communications infrastructure that creates huge benefits, but it also creates significant vulnerabilities to hackers, crackers and even terrorists," he says. "Computer security, I think, is a significant problem, and it's going to get worse...
...straw yellow silk suit and pearls, and denied that she was furious at the FBI and its director, Louis Freeh. "You all are going to try your level best to make us enemies, but you're not going to succeed," Reno said, her face fixed in a thin smile...
Oklahoma junior high school science teacher Dennis Fritz never thought he would be convicted of raping and murdering his neighbor, 21-year-old Debra Sue Carter. He had no criminal record, except for driving offenses, and the case against him was paper thin--flimsy circumstantial evidence and the dubious testimony of a jailhouse snitch who claimed Fritz confessed while awaiting trial. Was that really all it took to send a man away for life? "When the jury came back with a guilty verdict, I almost went into shock," says Fritz...
NIGHT MOVES On www.MarketXT.com small investors can buy and sell the 200 largest stocks on the N.Y.S.E. and NASDAQ from 6 to 8 p.m. E.T., but certain trading restrictions can make the after-hours market more volatile. Thin trading volumes can lead to major price swings, and risk-limiting stop-loss and good-until-canceled orders are not allowed. Since all traffic must go through online brokers--so far, only Discover and Dreyfus offer the nighttime service--transmission delays and other computer problems may foul up profits. For more info, read MarketXT's rather lengthy disclosure...
Here's a quick way to thin the crowd at your next cocktail party: launch into the theory of three steps and a stumble. Those who sense an imminent tale of baby's first steps will flee first. You'll lose the rest when they realize that you're talking about a bear-market harbinger that worked in the '80s. For this is a new age, and if anything is deadlier than a kid story among adults, it's a cautionary tale of how the stock market behaved in the pre-Crash, pre-Internet, it-may-as-well-be-prehistoric...