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...that builds mining equipment and huge machines that produce 70% of the world's printing paper, Harnischfeger has just seen its sales to Singapore and other troubled Pacific Rim countries drop from $600 million a year to nearly zero. Its stock, riding high at $44 a year ago, was beaten down to $16 in last week's market rout, gutting the 401(k) retirement plans of many of its employees. "What I have in Harnischfeger stock is down by two-thirds," says a glum Dave Trench, 57, a machinery stock attendant at a Harnischfeger subsidiary in Nashua, N.H. "When...
...concentrated mutual funds that I assess in my column near the end of this magazine, in Personal Time. Or invest in the small stocks of the Russell 2000, preferably through an index fund or an actively managed small-stock fund. These small stocks have been beaten down more than their larger brethren, despite having comparable earnings...
...that to work, though, you need a home-run-hitting stock picker--and that creature is as rare as the Mark McGwires of the world. The Sequoia Fund, for example, has beaten both the average stock fund and the S&P 500 for the past one, three and five years. But it does not accept new investors. Some solid big-bet funds that do welcome new money include Davis Growth, Clipper, Janus Twenty, Lexington Corporate Leaders, Yacktman and Enterprise Growth...
...bias in employment every bit as illegal as race or sex discrimination? Officially, yes, and McElyea briefly considered his legal options. But he knew only too well what forbidding odds he would face in a lawsuit. He had defended the company against many age-discrimination suits and beaten every one. "There is real bias out there," says McElyea, but it is hard to prove...
...forgiving and gently eccentric kind of obsessive, disapproving of his pupil's stubborn individuality but also watchfully guarding a passion for excellence that matches his own. Theirs is a marvelously subtle wrangle: Prefontaine ran Bowerman's race in the 5,000 m at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and was beaten; but it was Bowerman who brought him back from self-pity (and maybe self-destruction) and onto the comeback trail before Prefontaine was killed...