Word: chain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Starbucks is best known for its strong coffee, but the Seattle-based chain has branched out in the past few years, securing a niche in the summer market with several cold blended beverages...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataHere?s the daisy chain: Fed hikes rates. Markets, relieved, take off. Consumers, watching their portfolios swell, continue to spend like drunken sailors. Fed gets nervous, and Greenspan -? if he deems that an economic overheat is imminent -? goes into rate-hike mode all over again, confronting the markets with their worst fear and sending Street walkers back to cowering under their desks. Bye-bye rally. Of course, if investors and traders see all this coming and sell on the news, they may have to make room under that desk for Uncle Alan -? a harmless rate hike...
...gloom-and-doom scenario, the Federal Reserve Board will not be satisfied with such modest rate hikes. In order to nip in the bud any renewal of inflation, the Fed will begin an aggressive tightening of credit and deliberately push interest rates much higher still. That will cause a chain reaction. It will knock stock and bond prices much lower, make consumer buying and business investment more difficult to finance, and maybe put a stop to what is about to become the longest economic expansion in U.S. history...
...executives at the top of the Internet food chain to convert that low-cost enthusiasm and work-is-play lifestyle into publicly traded companies worth millions of dollars. And a number have succeeded: TheGlobe.com's chairman Michael Egan is worth about $200 million; StarMedia CEO Fernando Escuelas, 32, now has a net worth of $256 million. Josh Harris, chairman and founder of Pseudo.com stands to make millions when Pseudo goes public later this year...
...find out what student groups looked interesting, which is actually how I first discovered the business board of The Crimson. In retrospect, I think I was shell-shocked. By not participating in orientation week, I was trying not to admit that I was at the bottom of the food chain again and in unfamiliar territory. I wanted to be in California with my friends and family and was truly dreading what everyone proclaimed was going to be "the worst winter in history," not to mention my first white winter...