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...firms from $34.65 to $15.95 a trade. (A trade now costs more than $50 at standard off-line discounters and at least twice as much at full-service firms.) Aggressive discounters on the Internet charge less than $10, and cutthroats such as Web Street Securities charge nothing--that's zilch--to handle trades of more than 1,000 shares of NASDAQ stocks. This rock-bottom pricing reflects the lower costs of e-trading--look, Ma, no broker!--and the fact that firms can glean revenue from noncommission sources like the interest on margin accounts...
...harsh sanctions the U.S. applied to squeeze out the military regime reduced the expiring economy to ashes. In the 15 months since Aristide's return, "they've done zilch" about the economy, says a U.S. diplomat. Agrees Lavalas Party chief Gerard Pierre-Charles: "Benefits are not visible." While inflation has dropped from above 50% to 17% and foreign loans have paid off Haiti's back debts, Aristide spent money on new ministries and instant gratification like backpacks for schoolchildren rather than investing in infrastructure. He only pretended to cut the civil service, hiring as many people as he fired...
Federal investigators have almost zilch in the way of clues to identify the so called "unabomber" and are relying completely on help from the public, a source tells TIME San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson. Since the mailbomb killing Sunday of a Madison Ave. executive in North Caldwell, N.J., investigators from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and the Postal Service have received about 500 calls with tips on the bomber, an ATF source told Jackson. "It takes time tracking them down, but they are still appealing to the public to call in with tips...
...delirious whirl of the Manhattan club scene depicted in Social Disease (1986), le plus chic twosome is Guy and Venice Huber, dancing their youth away -- and, because they are Rudnick people, constantly refreshing it. With its Evelyn Waugh drawl, Social Disease is Rudnick's revenge on the less- than-zilch nightlife novels of the mid-'80s. So I'll Take It (1989) must be his anti-Portnoy. A Jewish boy who loves and enjoys his mother -- call the cops! Paul's mom Selma and her sisters Lillian and Hilda are the models for Hedy Reckler and her bargain-hunter siblings...
...ozone story is a tragic saga of doubt and delay. Rowland recalls that for several months after his original ozone paper was published in 1974, "the reaction was zilch." It was not until 1978 that the U.S., but not most other countries, banned the use of CFCs in hair sprays and other aerosols. Not until the Antarctic ozone hole was confirmed in 1985 did nations get serious about curbing all uses of CFCs. By now as many as 20 million tons of these potent chemicals have been pumped into the atmosphere...