Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple of measures, the thousands of analysts who study individual U.S. companies haven't been this worried about the profit picture in years. Clifford Fox, managing director at Columbus Circle Investors, keeps track of the revisions stock analysts make in their earnings forecasts. In the 10 days ending last Thursday, only 33% of the revisions made were upward ones--a two-year low for that reading. John Manley, analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, notes that December was the first time since 1992 when there were fewer upward revisions in the month than the average for that month over the five...
...conference, scheduled to take place Columbus Day weekend, will be the first of its kind. It is designed to provide an opportunity for students to discuss pertinent Chinese-American topics from the involvement of Asian-Americans in the national campaign finance scandal to the recent appointment of Bill Lann Lee as assistant attorney general for civil rights...
...according to experts. When I was eight years old, I told everyone the new mud flap with the rhinestone on my Schwinn was the prize for winning the biking competition at the Knights of Columbus. I was humiliated when the fact checkers in my neighborhood found out I'd only collected the consolation prize for slow-riding. Chastened, I stuck close to reality until I was trying to account for some dead spots between college and law school, and law school and life. Rather than admit to traveling aimlessly around Europe, I put down that I was studying French...
...Clinton and other hamburger-loving Americans, nothing could have been scarier. At the height of the barbecue season last August, more than a dozen people became seriously ill from ground beef contaminated by a virulent strain of bacteria known as E. coli 0157:H7, which was traced to a Columbus, Neb., processing plant. The incident prompted the nation's largest meat recall, a whopping 25 million lbs. of beef patties. It also brought a vow from gourmand Clinton to wage a major war for food safety...
...very aware of the closeness of the race," said Stewart, a Winthrop House resident from Columbus, Ga. "But I'm elated as I can be. Now is the time to build some bridges in the council...