Word: blips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with everyone from bellhops to biologists following every blip in the Dow on cable-TV channels and financial websites, passive investing is starting to become passe. "Everybody's an expert," grumbles a high-ranking executive at one fund company--a reference to the growing legion of e-traders who are sucking money from money managers at a rate that is starting to test their nerves. Sure, the $5.9 trillion fund industry is still chugging along quite nicely. But after a decade of explosive growth, it seems poised for a shakeout, as too many stock funds (about 3,500 at last...
Whether or not conservatives deserve the credit for all this, they surely have as much claim to it as Clinton does. In Weyrich's case, he isn't asking for thanks because he doesn't believe a word of it. The positive trends, he says, are "a blip," a demographic quirk that will soon change when what he sees as the amoral Generation X comes to power...
...doomsday prophets need to get a life! In a universe that is 15 billion years old, the entire era of human existence is a nano-blip." JENNIFER L. WOOD Bakersfield, Calif...
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 called the drop nothing more than "a blip," and said it was "irrelevant...
...Blip or not, Harvard is not out of the woods...