Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...market for only the first six to nine months but then start lagging behind. After two years, IPOs were typically underperforming the S&P by 20%. Michaely explains that IPO prices are usually propped up by their lead underwriters in the early stages with positive reports known as "booster shots." But these shots also tend to coincide with heavy selling by insiders. "The buyer, or the sucker," he says, "is usually the small investor...
...definitely an improvement," she said. "Besides the actual funding, you know, the athletes have always been working hard, and for them to get this is just a real confidence booster...
...Mogadishu. When Captain Ted Campagna and his infantry company arrived in the city of Jilib, an average of 60 local people died each day, mostly from gunshot wounds. "After we were there," says Campagna, "the death rate dropped to three or four a day." That was a morale booster. So was the eventual sight of villages coming | alive again and fields being put back into cultivation. "As we were pulling out," says Sergeant Donald Grimm, "and you started to see all the crops, you'd say, 'We made a big difference in Somalia...
...also a pride-booster when someone does something very special in front of the hometown crowd. Such was the case for Harvard freshman Meg Kassakian, a graduate of Newton North High School. Kassakian's former assistant coach Don Satter came to Ohiri Field to watch his former star in action and brought another high school team. Satter and his squad got to see Kassakian beat a couple of Eagle players and pass the ball to wide-open sophomore Megan Hall, who beat the Eagle goalie for the third Crimson goal that sealed the Crimson victory...
...take advantage of a burst of technological progress -- and it shows. Thanks to a skin as thin as a credit card, which replaces the heavy aluminum shell of conventional spacecraft, the rocket is light enough to leap into orbit in a single bound, avoiding the wasteful shedding of expensive booster stages. The DC-X is the world's first fully reusable spacecraft, and its myriad computer systems make it easy to launch and repair. It can be fired off by a crew of three, far fewer than the army of 1,700 needed by the shuttle. Bottom line: the Delta...