Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gary Ciuffetelli once scraped out a living in a machine shop, but now he's getting ready to "ride a wave," as they say at All-Tech Investment Group in Suffern, New York. Dressed in shorts and a T shirt, the 33-year-old trader stares at a computer screen linked to the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ), the world's second largest stock market after the New York Stock Exchange. Sensing that Lotus stock is starting to climb, Ciuffetelli tells an All-Tech clerk to buy 1,000 shares. The clerk presses a few buttons...
...prices appear to move in concert, a few sometimes lag behind, creating brief price differentials that clients spot and pounce on. Customers who correctly predict the direction of a stock can reap $250 (less commissions) for each quarter-point gain on a 1,000-share bet. But "riding a wave" is not so easy: a stock can blip upward, enticing a small trader to buy it, and then come tumbling down. "Oh my God!" cries a fortysomething beautician as she loses $250 in a split-second transaction involving Genzyme, a biotechnology firm. "This has been the longest trade...
Zeke is the secret owner of the building and the secret sharer of his tenants' lives, for he has wired every room in the place and keeps tabs on everyone via closed-circuit TV. This makes him a prime suspect in the wave of violent deaths that has lately plagued the premises. Once Carly discovers his state-of-the-art electronics, he somehow becomes more attractive to her. This is possibly because the only other prospect Joe Eszterhas' script makes available to her is a mystery novelist (Tom Berenger) made understandably surly by impotence and writer's block...
Heller's other specialties include wave-packet dynamics in molecular scattering and association and the explanation of classically chaotic systems, Kirby said...
...evidence gathered from animal experiments and epidemiological surveys points to the high-energy, shorter-wave ultraviolet-B portion of the sun's radiation as the main culprit in causing basal- and squamous-cell cancer. (Sunburns are also caused by UV-B radiation, wrinkles by the weaker UV-A part of the spectrum.) Since no animals other than humans and opossums suffer from malignant melanoma, researchers still do not know exactly what causes that more deadly disease. Most dermatologists have long assumed that sunburn-causing UV-B must be a greater threat than UV-A. As a result, sunscreen manufacturers originally...