Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ATLANTA: Jackie Joyner-Kersee's bid for an unprecedented third straight heptathlon gold medal ground to a halt when she pulled out after one event Saturday with an injured right hamstring. Joyner-Kersee, who has been bothered by the hamstring injury for months, had the second-fastest time in the 100-meter hurdles. She appeared to re-injure the heavily bandaged hamstring as she jumped over the final hurdle. After a long rain delay between the hurdles and the high jump portion of the competition, Joyner-Kersee, limping badly, pulled out at the urging of her husband and coach Bobby...
Lamm calls himself a controversial politician whose time is now, the right man to appeal to a public sick of platitudes. But his time may come and go before he knows it, given the hurdles he faces--financial, logistical--just to mount a third-party bid. He now has less than a week in which to woo at least 10% of the Reform Party's 1.3 million petition signers. If enough of them put his name on their draft ballots, he will be invited to speak at the party convention Aug. 11 in Long Beach, California. Then participants will vote...
...through one of the earliest pre-Roe v. Wade laws that permitted abortion in certain circumstances, which later became a national model. In the early 1970s, he caught the swells of an awakening environmental movement and kept the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado. In 1974, in his successful bid for the governorship, he walked across the state, becoming one of the first politicians to adopt that strategy, and gave substance to grass-roots politics. Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much of his time blocking urban sprawl, and in his third term, he warned about...
Once on the open market, these stocks have caught on like a virus, propelled by "can't miss" contagiousness. Over the past 19 months investors have bid up such issues, spectacularly and speculatively, by spending a record $60 billion on the stock of start-up companies. That many of these outfits lacked the fundamental attributes--oh, minor things, such as profits--that sane folks use as the basis for plunking down their money didn't matter. Any company linked to computers or the World Wide Web may as well have been linked to a mint...
...bond traders, that sounded like the crack of doom. They bid prices down so rapidly that the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds rose to 7.1%, up 6.9% on the day and more than a point above the start of the year (bond prices and yields always move in opposite directions). Stock prices got dragged down too; the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 115 points, to a close...