Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard University, this year's bull market proved disappointing...
...perfect game in Yankee Stadium is no big deal these days; two have been pitched in the past 16 months. But a good baseball movie, that's hard. Kevin Costner was in one of those (Bull Durham). In For Love of the Game he tries for two, as an aging Detroit Tigers pitcher in what may be his final game--a last shot at perfection...
More than 30% of U.S. households own stocks of some form or another, whether in investment accounts, mutual funds or retirement plans, up from 12% just 10 years ago. While an ongoing bull market has lulled us into a sense of security about investing, the reality is we are taking greater risks with our money than any other generation in American history. Many of us even take this a step further, buying "speculative growth," i.e., highly risky Internet and technology stocks, breezily ignoring the potentially precipitous downside...
...ominous organ music and barely a page of dialogue, all slowly unfolding a circuitous plot involving Gilmore (played with truculent wordlessness by Barney), copulating bees, members of the Gilmore clan, Houdini (played briefly and pugnaciously by Norman Mailer, author of the Gilmore saga The Executioner's Song), a Brahma bull, the Mormon Tabernacle and landscapes ranging from Utah's blindingly bright salt flats to the glacial ice fields of Jasper, Canada...
...media do a disservice to those who devote time and energy enough to research and pick stocks themselves to castigate them as gamblers. These are precisely the people who have racked up the best returns in this bull market. And we lend too much of a veneer of professionalism to those who would gamble away life savings on random, short-term moves. Let's stop confusing these two contingents before we scare those who have the confidence and skills to be their own adviser and embolden those who should know better than to bet instead of invest...