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Councillors suggested large signs be placed at crosswalks to alert cars to stop for pedestrians...
...upside and downside risks to the economic outlook." Which means, says TIME senior economic reporter Bernard Baumohl, that Greenspan is "raising a yellow flag to indicate that the best of the nation's inflation news may be over. He wants everyone to know that the Fed stands ready and alert to raise interest rates, if that should become necessary...
...shares. That's one reason stocks that split have historically got about a 5% lift between the date of the announcement and the actual split. Lately, though, the pop has been more explosive. EBay rose a quick 37%; Xerox, 10%; Microsoft, 12%. People now pay for services that alert them via pager or e-mail whenever a split is announced, so they can quickly buy the stock. It's an example of lemmings running amuck in the market--dumb money chasing any trend that doesn't require thoughtful analysis...
...give you an idea of how little money that is, if you had a stack of $1,000 bills, there would be only 250 of them.) Hastert knew about the issue not just because he's a progressive-thinking lawmaker, but also because Amurol, the company that makes Stay Alert Caffeine Supplement Gum, is in his district...
...were lucky, changing on the fly like that," Harvard Head Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "There were a couple of instances where guys just weren't alert...