Word: walls
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...icon of the old capitalism was the backyard inventor (as nostalgically recalled in the movie "Tucker"), the undoubted emblem of the new capitalism is the silk-draped Wall Street arbitrageur. The latter schemes to make money from money, rather than making money from a product that would potentially benefit...
Bundled in gray garbage bags, 100 young men from Central America spend the night dozing against the brick wall of an Immigration and Naturalization Service center in Harlingen, Texas. On a muddy field in nearby Brownsville, 75 families endure a driving rainstorm crouched under plastic sheeting. At an abandoned hotel, children shiver around wood fires and try to sleep in cold, gutted rooms under mounds of donated blankets. By official estimate, at least 5,000 refugees from war and deteriorating economies in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have been stranded in South Texas since the INS last month directed...
Cheers rang out over the Beverly Hills junk-bond trading floor of Drexel Burnham Lambert at the news coming over the brokerage firm's wire. Jubilation also reigned among most New York Republicans, and quite probably in Mafia hangouts as well. Rudolph Giuliani, famed prosecutor of Wall Street manipulators (Drexel, Ivan Boesky), mobsters (the Colombo family) and corrupt politicians (former Bronx Democratic leader Stanley Friedman), announced that after 5 1/2 years as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he would resign at month's end. Gotham Republicans, a tiny band of inveterate losers, delightedly anticipated being able...
CEBus systems use a house's existing wiring to control appliances. For example, a homeowner might plug a CEBus-compatible microwave oven into a wall socket in the kitchen. Then he or she could set the oven temperature and its start and stop time by using a CEBus controller. That could be a telephone linked to the house's electrical system, a home computer plugged into a wall socket or a remote hand-held controller that beams infrared rays to an outlet. Last week Bell Atlantic announced plans to test a new system that uses standard phones to control...
...generally safe and is effective in about 80% of cases of hyperactive children. Adverse effects are usually limited to temporary appetite loss and insomnia. "Ritalin is not a panacea," says researcher Howard Abikoff of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, "but without medication we'd be up against the wall...