Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suppose sharpies bamboozle Grandpa into buying stock in Fraudulent Uranium Co. or Flim-Flam.com Not to worry: the law should allow only competent and honest professional managers to bid for Social Security money--and require them to offer a wide choice among funds making highly conservative to more adventurous investments, which is roughly the deal enjoyed today by employees in company 401(k) plans. In any investing, some risk is inevitable, but probably less than the risk that pensions would be slashed to keep a completely tax-financed system sound...
...Crimson (26-15, 16-4 Ivy) and Tigers (24-18, 15-5) are meeting in the three-game series for the Ancient Eight title for the fourth year in a row. But this is the first time they will be playing for an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, which expanded from 48 to 64 teams for the 1999 season...
...once again) by shady foreign spies. Caught in a world of constant motion, there's hardly a moment for him to catch his breath before setting off again on some new adventure. The last panel of a Tintin book rarely depicts anything other than a scene of departure: we bid farewell to the boy reporter as he steams away on an ocean liner, boards an airplane or blasts off into the night sky in his rocket ship. An old man and his courageous son, recently rescued from the clutches of some nefarious revolutionary cell, stand on the dock and wave...
...Diller's offer to merge part of his USA Networks with Lycos to form a new company, of which Lycos would own 30%, values Lycos at approximately $85 a share, substantially less than the $130 it was trading at when Diller made the offer. Wetherell, after initially supporting the bid, changed his mind, withdrew from the Lycos board and pledged to vote his shares against the deal at a shareholders' meeting next month...
...link up. Nearly every old-media firm needs some kind of new-media footprint to distribute its content and capitalize on the e-commerce and marketing opportunities offered by the Internet. AT&T, for instance, controls Net portal @Home and cable company TCI. Last week it made a bid for Mediaone, another cable firm with investments in entertainment. Thus AT&T wants to deliver everything to everybody--from phone service to cable TV to e-commerce--over a variety of networks...