Word: amazon
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...from buzzing with Nostradamus' apparent predictions of a divided election and the rise of "the village idiot" to the U.S. presidency - though a search of his prolific writings turns up no such text. And a retrospective reading of newspaper horoscopes could be construed to have urged punters to buy Amazon at the equivalent of about $1.50 a share in June 1996 and to sell it at more than $80 last February (just before it sank to its current level of about...
...tech runup of 1996-2000 was largely, Soros now says, a result of wrong ideas. Remember when folks predicted 200% revenue growth for Amazon.com in 2000? That was a mistake. The firm came in at less than half that. In Soros' mind, the beating that has hit Amazon and other stocks since then is the result of investors selling their mistakes. Soros among them. He hopped on the tech boat just long enough for his fund to sink 22%. As we said, mistakes break fortunes...
...would be easy to scoff at such ideas, elaborated by Laura Doyle in her book The Surrendered Wife (Simon & Schuster) as retro or ridiculous. But last week Doyle made the national media rounds, and her book is already on Amazon's Top 10. Surrendered Wives circles have sprouted in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago. The book has understandably provoked strong reactions. Popular therapist and author John Gray praises it, on the front cover, as a "practical and valuable tool." But UCLA psychologist Andrew Christensen moans, "It's destructive. It's a throwback, and it doesn't protect women...
...proposal for Kamen's invention has been seen by Jeff Bezos, president of the online retailer Amazon.com, Amazon's press office confirmed yesterday...
...Quick, sell all my Amazon!" b) "I've also cut my cholesterol level, but no one cares" c) He's prepared to cut rates again d) "L'etat...