Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Buying in bulk used to mean hauling a case of toilet paper home from a warehouse club. Now consumers can pool their orders online for "power buys" at www.mercata.com This Web retailer sells consumer electronics, sporting goods, housewares and appliances around the clock. But each day select items are put up for group sale at an initial price--say, $40 for a radio. The more buyers who join the sale by day's end, the lower the price will go. All buyers get the lowest price offered...
...billion in net new money flowed into stock funds--down a third from 1998's record levels. Moreover, as fund investors chase short-term performance above all, only a select group of the top fund families, with brand names like Vanguard, Janus, Fidelity, Putnam and Alliance, are capturing the bulk of that new cash--and much of it is "automatic" in the form of 401(k) plans. That leaves hundreds of smaller players to fight for the scraps, according to Financial Research Corp. "There's a lot more risk now," says Jack Brennan, chairman of fund giant Vanguard, based...
...having one of those millenniums" T-shirt, sweatshirt and cap (the whole ensemble can be yours for only $53.85 on www.year2000products.com) while playing a special edition of Millennium Monopoly and drinking out of a millennium champagne flute ($24.95 each, but only $14.50 each if you buy in bulk...
...president of Harvard is a busy man, and the job he holds is probably more than any one person could ever hope to perform with unquestioned success. The bulk of Rudenstine's time, however, is caught up in the kind of minutiae more appropriate for a small college president than the head of a major University. As a result, it seems, the office of the president of Harvard University has shrunk under Rudenstine's well-intentioned hand...
...form of protest is allowed in Tercentenary Theater--we can't hold up banners, we can't carry signs," said coalition member Rosslyn Wuchinich '99. As a result, Wuchinich said, they will stage the bulk of their activities for outside of Harvard Yard...