Word: dormant
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...Royal Dutch, have risen accordingly. If you missed Big Oil's runup, consider Not So Big Oil: companies such as Conoco and USX Marathon have been relatively ignored by investors, but they're turning analysts' heads. "These are companies whose profits have exploded while their share prices remain dormant," says Ed Maran of A.G. Edwards. While a company like ExxonMobil may be stronger in terms of distribution and product diversification, "a barrel of oil is a barrel of oil--no matter who owns it," says Paul Cheng of Lehman Brothers. He also believes that the current differential...
...choosing the wrong path, Weld has descended from the pedestal of a brilliant politician to an overt parody of himself. Moving to New York and hobnobbing with the city's finest will not create worthwhile opportunities for him; rather, he should have preserved the exceptional intellect that now lies dormant...
...America's cities. Advocates, led by hawkish Republicans and their allies in the military and the arms industry, insist that North Korea could be in a position to drop warheads on your home town by 2005; critics dismiss this timetable. And even if Pyongyang, whose missile program has been dormant for the past two years, could muster the technical wherewithal to develop such long-range missiles, the naysayers argue, there are a growing number of political and economic factors militating against North Korea's pursuing this course...
When it comes to the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, never bet against the home-schooled kids. This year's champ, GEORGE ABRAHAM THAMPY, 12, and the top two runners-up take their lessons at home, where subjects like Latin, long dormant in public schools, fill the time most kids squander socializing. But George is a standout even in the rarefied air of the bee circuit. In two previous attempts, he tied for fourth and third places in the spelling contest, and two weeks ago, he came in second in the National Geography Bee. With the spelling title--which George...
...Langford, a retired FBI supervisor. "You'd interview people, and they wouldn't want to testify. With the climate being different now, they are willing to cooperate." In the '70s, Alabama attorney general Bill Baxley successfully prosecuted "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss. But after Baxley left office, the case went mostly dormant and was not reopened until 1995. Langford, assigned to Alabama, met with local black leaders who were tired of delays. Says he: "What it took was a commitment to stick...