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...bull market. Everybody listens, but no one ever sells. Which poses the big questions: If and when a crash starts, what should the press say? Which analysts -- pessimists or optimists -- should they interview? Because a heavily invested America will know about it instantly. And with the sound of a thousand talking heads buzzing in its collective ear, the next Great Depression (or the next harmless Black Monday of 1987) could be decided by a coin flip...
...Four thousand dollars represents roughly one-third of the organization's annual budget...
Thus was born Shuttleboy, a program written in C that is several thousand lines of code long...
...said, most folks in Wyoming may not like homosexuality, but they are neither fanatics nor fools, and they tend not to interfere in other people's personal business. Now not every anti-Semite was a Nazi, either; but without the thousand small literary and social cuts inflicted by anti-Semitism, Hitler's wave of extermination against the Jews of Europe could not have been successful. Dehumanize people enough, and someone will take up the challenge and kill them. It really does happen that...
...month before, saying they wouldn't give him any more money until he got himself together. Both Peter and Susie had offered to put him up, but he'd declined. No one heard from him for a few weeks. Then, he called Peter and asked for a thousand dollars to pay for a bankruptcy lawyer. Peter sent it. Susie called two weeks later; Mark's phone had been cut off. She e-mailed him, but he no longer had an account. He'd disappeared...