Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other business, SAC passed a resolution to petition the College for permission to mail-drop copies of an explanation of the University's alcohol policy, once it has been announced...
...Coast president of NBC, wouldn't disagree. "We would like to have seven Thursday nights," he says. Indeed, the NBC slogan, "Must See TV," once reserved for its top-rated Thursday lineup, has expanded to "It's Must See on NBC" for the whole prime-time schedule. "The 4% drop in [network audience] share isn't anything we care about," claims Ohlmeyer. "What we care about is our share." Though still No. 1 in the ratings this season, it should be noted, NBC has seen its share drop from...
...carriers allowed in each U.S. city, cellular-phone rates were boosted by a lack of competition. But dozens of new carriers and the arrival of cheap personal-communication-service networks have pushed rates down. Today's 56 million users pay 34% less per minute than in 1987. The drop, say experts, is likely to continue...
...then, is that in the week preceding the crash, the market took as horrendous a drubbing as it had ever suffered. I think about that week often because, had I not lived through it, I would have stepped, and stepped lively, into the charnel house that Friday, since the drop before Black Monday was the quintessential...
...biggest risk is the one that has trampled investors so often in the past. With a big market drop, the equity culture--the faith--just dies out as investors see other assets start to zoom higher, as gold and real estate did in the '70s. They shift to those asset classes and end up missing huge initial gains when stocks eventually, inevitably, bounce back. That kind of behavior destroys any argument for the public's easily attaining the long-term average annual returns that stocks offer...