Word: belle
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...numbers on the indexes, it was great news. Earnings reports after Wednesday's bell by Yahoo, Microsoft and Motorola turned Thursday into an almost-giddy celebration by investors. All major indexes started out hot at the bell and kept on chugging, with the Dow up 240 and the NASDAQ up over...
...other words, if Armstrong's going to get humiliated, he wants more money. The CEO started at AT&T promising to make Ma Bell into a one-stop-shop for local, long-distance and high-speed Internet services - which spawned his acquisitions of cable guys Tele-Communications Inc. and MediaOne (the latter in an 11th-hour, Comcast-topping bid that president Brian Roberts never forgot) for a total $90 billion a few years back...
...SunAmerica initiative is a bell ringer because it is an exemption and requires no change of law. If Labor approves it, other plan administrators, including mutual-fund powerhouses Fidelity and Vanguard, would probably go for their own exemptions, and conceivably within a year, access to full-service advice would be part of most large 401(k) plans, as well as 403(b)s for nonprofits and 457s for government workers...
...lunch. Feel ill before, during and after eating fried salty food. Actual physical yearning for Taco Bell takes place...
Bonds has always had good power numbers, but his emergence, at 36, as the game's premier long-ball hitter is inexplicable. In 2000 the Giants moved into Pac Bell Park, whose cozy right-field dimensions (307 ft. down the foul line) were designed with Bonds' left-handed bat in mind. Still, half of his home runs this year have come on the road. "I think it's harder to hit home runs in Pac Bell than it was in Candlestick," Bonds says of the Giants' old windswept home. "If I get to 50 this year, I'll be happy...