Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mostly happy. It works for many men, and Pfizer, the manufacturer, estimates that 5 million prescriptions have been written. The company's stock has risen from 75 11/16 in January to 116 as of last Friday (slightly down from its peak of 121 3/4). Sales may get a boost when a new ad campaign begins next year featuring that charismatic pitchman Bob Dole...
...will end UNSCOM inspections for good without having done much to debilitate Saddam's capacity to manufacture his lethal weapons. UNSCOM has been stymied by Saddam to the point of impotence, but it did provide a mechanism for measuring how and when sanctions could be lifted. Its demise could boost sentiment among Arab nations to drop the embargo, with Russia and China possibly pulling out as well. And if UNSCOM dissolves, the U.S. will have little alternative to a continued struggle with the dictator, containing Iraq with periodic bombings when it steps out of line...
Although the Pacific winds are a crucial boost, they are also what makes this the most dangerous leg of the journey: Right now the balloonists are headed straight for a weather pattern that could spell serious trouble for the helium-and-hot-air craft, just as it did for team member Steve Fossett, who fell thousands of feet and was nearly killed by a storm in the South Pacific during his last ballooning attempt. Shipping traffic gets pretty sparse in the vast reaches of the Pacific, and no one wants to find out how long it would take...
Both mergers had me scurrying to find other potential targets in these industries, but I thought better of it. Unless management at other laggards in paper and gasoline felt similarly inclined to boost shareholder value, I might be stuck in underachieving stocks for some time to come, as the pricing pressures seem only to be increasing. In the end, the victors will get the spoils: Exxon and International Paper will buy themselves several years of outperformance. In general, though, investors should look for companies that sell products and services with unique qualities, rather than commodities like fuel and paper...
...days hanging out at the local senior-citizen center and responding to numerous requests from kids to come speak at their schools. Tuttle dedicated his $600 in left-over campaign funds to the Tunbridge public library, and he is going back into the movie business. Tuttle's biggest campaign boost was his role in neighbor and campaign-manager John O'Brien's satiric film Man with a Plan, about an upstart campaigner. Tuttle has a bit part in O'Brien's next film, Nosey Parker. This time he plays a villain...