Word: chipping
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...Last week, the Big Fear gripped Silicon Valley big time. The always-optimistic entrepreneurs who thrive out here came down with a major case of the Pessimism Flu. The contagion was traced to a special meeting called by Sequoia Capital - the blue-chip venture firm - whose brains and money are behind just about any start-up of consequence. The message the VCs gave their young start-ups? Get profitable...
...time for investors to celebrate, right? On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average ended up a stunning 936 points, the biggest one-day point gain in history - all the more remarkable considering the index of blue-chip stocks had just come off its worst weekly loss on record. The S&P 500, a broader measure of the stock market, saw its largest one-day percentage gain since 1939, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ jumped 12%. Seems a gaggle of European countries rolling out billions of dollars to guarantee loans and recapitalize banks, and indications that the U.S. might do some...
...were just the latest in a string of traumas for investors already afraid to open brokerage statements or turn on cable TV for fear of what the news might bring. It was the seventh straight day of declines for the Dow, driving the group of blue-chip stocks below 8,600, a level not broached in five years. Since the market's high - ironically enough, exactly a year ago - the Dow has shed nearly...
...starter junior Ben Jenkins saw only limited time and did not carry the ball. Sophomore Gino Gordon shouldered much of the load on the opening drive and carried the ball 16 times for 49 yards, but it was junior Cheng Ho who, while playing like he had a chip on his shoulder, made every carry count. The junior rushed the ball 20 times for 108 yards, including a 51-yard scamper—his career long—that set up the Crimson’s only score of the second half. “He’s such...
...fashioning representations of his face while smiling (in every medium imaginable), and then, of course, there is the work of Zhang Xiaogang whose black-and-white paintings of 1950s era Chinese families have sold for upwards of US$2 million at auction. While these men are undoubtably the blue chip artists of today, they have not risen to the top without critical dissent...