Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lowest estimates being made by Wall Street analysts. He expects--"by the end of the summer"--a correction of 10% to 15% in today's stratospheric stock-market prices that will interrupt a long-term bull trend. Varvares is both more and less optimistic. He foresees only an 8% drop in the Dow Jones industrial average but one that will fall "on a sustained basis" through year...
...forests creates conditions that foster fires. The fires pour carbon dioxide into the air, which promotes global warming and makes the forests dryer still. A computer simulation of the effect of climate change in Mexico has predicted that if temperatures rise as feared, rainfall might be reduced 40%--a drop that would doom the remaining rain forests in the state of Chiapas...
...psychological reassurance to Tokyo. It's up to the Japanese to get themselves back in shape." Japan has been sluggish in responding to G7 pleas for urgent action, but Treasury official Larry Summers flies to Tokyo later today to press the case. Because as Monday's 200-point drop in the Dow on news of Japan's recession confirmed, Washington and Tokyo are in this together...
...market drops, you'll have the pleasure of picking up some of those high flyers you've wanted to buy but considered--rightly, I think--too expensive of late: the Coca-Colas and Lucents, or the funds that hold them. Do your research and make a shopping list now. Plan to put your excess cash back in stocks in equal steps--as any market drop reaches, say, 8%, 12%, 16%, then 20%. If the market turns around before the final threshold, keep putting money in as those levels are breached going...
...Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is suing Polo, the magazine of the U.S. Polo Association, to force the periodical to drop its name, claiming the 22-year-old magazine's recent redesign, focusing on elegant life-styles and fashion, is courting the same audience that buys Lauren's products. Lauren's company says it trademarked the word Polo...