Word: bullish
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...decline in crude-oil prices was partly responsible, but a larger factor was a government policy reversal. Although bullish on shale, coal and other synfuels in 1980, Washington soon cooled to the idea, as it had done in the past. After 1980, the Reagan Administration thought private industry, not government, should shoulder all the costs. Subsidies were reduced, and in 1985 the Administration killed the entire program, except for the synthetic-fuels tax credit. "The Administration no longer believes continued funding of the Synthetic Fuels Corp. serves any useful purpose," Budget Director James Miller told Congress. Former Colorado Governor Richard...
...started at the discount brokerage firm where I had an account. There I met with Mr. Income Annuity. He was short, stocky, substantial--bullish, you might say. After much computer analysis, he recommended that I spend a not insignificant sum on a five-year annuity and prescribed a "wealth-replacement" plan. But I didn't like the idea of replacing wealth. I preferred the idea of holding on to wealth...
...major at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Phillips, 44, has been using and studying applications and systems software. As Oracle's new executive vice president, he will draw on that customer perspective--and on 17 years as an industry analyst, most recently at Morgan Stanley. Phillips has been more bullish on Oracle's stock than most, but he was heralded by Institutional Investor as the sector's top analyst nine years in a row. At Oracle, he will keep up his industry contacts (read: customers and competitors) and help shape strategy...
Others aren't so bullish. Robert Dickinson, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, a consulting firm based in San Jose, Calif., says that without the corporate heft to cut deals with distributors like drugstore chain CVS (which sells AEDs made by Philips), Cardiac won't ever graduate from being a "mid-tier player...
Cold-eyed investors have made good money betting against the U.S. economy over the past year. Amid persistent weakness, bonds have soared while the dollar and stocks have plunged. But nothing lasts forever. Bullish investors learned that lesson three years ago when, with both eyes on the rearview mirror, they slammed into the back of a braking economy...