Word: dows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sold its Connection Machine 5, described in trade publication as "a sleek black box with red blinking lights," to re- search institutions such as Los Alamos NationalLaboratory and Stanford University. The companyhas also been a pioneer in marketing its hugelypowerful computers to commercial customers such asAmerican Express and Dow Jones...
...Alamos uses the Connection Machine 5 forclimate analysis; Stanford uses it to locate oilreserves. The computer fine tunes AmericanExpress' mailing lists, and searches throughperiodicals for Dow Jones' on-line informationservice...
...week Mahfouz resigned his post "to combat these false charges," and the same day silver plunged on European exchanges as his bank, Saudi Arabia's largest, dumped gargantuan amounts of the metal. The silver shock spilled into oil stocks, which helped fuel a 44-point slide in the Dow- Jones average on the New York Stock Exchange. Although silver and stocks recovered, the turmoil in those markets was the first close-to-home repercussion of the B.C.C.I. scandal in the U.S. It may not be the last...
...remarkable for a product that wasn't even available seven months ago. Nicoderm, the first patch to be approved by the FDA, arrived on the market just in time to cash in on several million New Year's resolutions. Backed by a massive ad campaign, marketer Marion Merrell Dow Inc. quickly created a huge demand, which soon outstripped supply. That was good news for rival Ciba-Geigy Corp., which now claims more than half the market, in contrast to about 30% for Nicoderm. But Ciba-Geigy, which has already sold more than 70 million Habitrol patches, has been forced...
...course, it was no better a decade ago, in 1982, when banks were paying 12% but tax rates and inflation were higher. You could have been losing money back then too, but at least 12% seemed like a lot. And with the Dow groveling around 800, what was your alternative? Certainly not stocks -- everybody knew stocks were no place for smart money...