Word: concepting
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...most important concept to grasp at this point is how the stock market interacts with the economy. Both run in cycles. But because investors focus on the future, the stock-market cycle is usually ahead of the economic cycle by six months to a year. With an unprecedented 49% of all American households owning stocks, and so much information available immediately via the Web and financial TV channels, this linkage is tightening. But there will always be a gap between the market and the real economy. That means stocks may be at their lows just as a slowdown becomes apparent...
Diversification, a concept that fell out of favor in the tech boom, will be critical in 2001. If you've still got more than 20% of your money in tech stocks, consider selling the ones with no earnings or with price-earnings ratios that far exceed their projected growth for this year. Those are ultrasensitive to even minor adjustments in what investors believe the companies will earn in future years. That was dandy in the bubble, when expectations were running high. Now we're seeing the downside of extreme volatility, and it isn't pretty...
Bessie's ultrasound tests may look good, but is the concept itself a sound one? Robert Lanza, ACT's vice president of medical and scientific development, says the technique is not a panacea but "presents exciting possibilities" that may help rescue endangered species and perhaps even reverse extinctions. Other scientists aren't so sure. They argue that such high-tech approaches are unlikely to make a significant contribution to the support of vulnerable species, especially if their habitats have been destroyed...
...they're little, we coax them into pointy hats and suffer through Barney-themed birthdays; then come the Chuck E. Cheese years, followed by the slumber-party era. Parents gamely go with the flow, because we know that social occasions are extremely important to kids. But a new party concept sweeping the teen circuit--the coed sleepover--has parents wondering when to say, "Enough already...
...paper trail of cracks against the pieties - against a higher minimum wage, against the concept of a woman-thwarting "glass ceiling" in business, against affirmative action, against bilingual education - is not going to make life easy for Chavez in confirmation hearings for her in-your-face appointment as secretary of labor...