Word: dowing
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More stunning was the amount of public outrage that followed: there was none. The notion of giving individuals the power to invest at least part of their payroll taxes--in stocks, bonds or another savings plan they might choose--raised hardly a complaint in a week when the Dow closed above 9000 for the first time. The stock-market boom has, it seems, turned Americans into a nation of risk takers. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 60% of those surveyed said they would like to play the market with some of their Social Security taxes; and if they could...
...befoul even the sweetest of spring breezes, take heart: You, the American people, are in the money. Among the roses that came up Tuesday: The Labor Department announced Tuesday that inflation in March was -- get this -- zero. That's the second nil reading in three months this year. The Dow, meanwhile, was up 100 in afternoon trading, and traders seem intent on dancing on 9000's grave...
INDEXCLOSE CHANGE Dow Jones Industrial 8986.64 +118.32 S&P 500 1120.01 +11.86 NYSE 582.04 +5.63 Nasdaq 1852.96 +5.30 AMEX...
...totally compromised by the cross directorships with the foundations. "We as class-A [nonvoting] shareholders are impotent to effect any kind of change," complains Jonathan Lewis, an analyst at Franklin Mutual Advisors, which is headed by the feared raider Michael Price. The outfit, which has made runs at Dow Jones & Co., Chase Manhattan Corp. and Sunbeam Corp., wants Grune gone. Says Lewis: "Grune is an ineffective manager, and I think the board of directors should expeditiously seek to replace him and/or to pursue the sale of the company." It's not quite the welcome back Grune anticipated when Digest lured...
...engages in armed conflict. Look no further than the tireless bull market that we enjoy today. It began in 1991 when the U.S. drove Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi army out of Kuwait. The first allied air raids came on Jan. 17 of that year and sent the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 4.6% in a day. By mid-March the Dow had jumped...