Word: discounter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...eager. Let the market stabilize, even if it means missing the early stage of a rally. In the short run, stay away from most airline, insurance, travel, leisure and high-end retailer stocks. Utilities, discount retailers, food and drug companies, defense contractors and select tech firms including wireless and surveillance should hold up. Above all, don't sell just to sell. "You want to buy into panics, not sell into them," says Peter Canelo, U.S. investment strategist at Morgan Stanley...
...seems premature to discount that these terrorists, who are 3-0 now - remember the embassies, and the USS Cole? - and smart enough to not only hit the strongest country in the world where it hurts but short the markets ahead of time, have any tricks left in their deadly bag. If they hit us again, if they merely frustrate our mighty military, if this post-attack world lasts three or four or twenty years, our economy will not take long in adjusting to the new reality...
...just after the blast and told him she was waiting at her desk, as instructed over the loudspeaker. McMillan, 38, a pressman for a direct-mail company, could see the explosions from his workplace, and told her to get out and meet him in front of Century 21, a discount fashion emporium across from the Trade Center...
...around that time that Rudy heard about a fourth plane. It had slammed into Somerset County, Pa., only two counties away from his home in Waynesburg. Today all the Marisas are grateful to be alive. As they know, it is only shallow men who discount luck. --By John Cloud...
Perhaps the theatrical highlight of my summer came after I returned to New York and was passively watching the remaining days drift away before my return to Cambridge. I went to the TKTS booth in Times Square, looking for discount tickets to any one of the few shows that would not still be running or would lose their original stars before my next visit home. When I got to the front of the line and saw what was available, I happily snatched up a seat for tick, tick,… BOOM!, an off-Broadway musical written by the late...