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...investment rules and snail-pace economic reforms, investors grew frustrated and disillusioned over Vietnam's prospects. After the 1997 Asian financial crisis hit, the country's growth rate plunged from 8.2% to 4.8% in two years. "Vietnam didn't so much crash," Salzman recalls. "It was more like a dud...
...Just to be sure, though, this really was a nuclear test...not a dud and not some big bang to make people squeamish. They wanted to develop a bomb and they have done it. Since then, the North Koreans have been partying like it's 1999 (or maybe...
...biggest risk is that a dud at the start could imperil the value of the 10 characters Marvel plans to use in subsequent movies, including the Incredible Hulk. So while Marvel isn't risking any of its own cash, "there's no question that there would be a perceptual impact on the stock," says Cowen & Co. analyst Lowell Singer. Which is why Marvel left many scratching their heads when it let producer Arad strike off on his own. "Avi's contract was up in November, and Marvel couldn't afford the compensation he can demand," Cuneo explains. "So we thought...
Unfortunately, there are some industries where the H-Bomb remains a dud...
...holed up in my hotel room, in silence, boring myself to death. Everybody else [on the tour] comes back, and they've got bags of s___ that they've bought, and they've gone to museums. I haven't gone out, and I feel like such a dud. But I really have to starve myself of people. I have to get myself into a calm trance and then I'm just--pow!--out the door and happy to see everybody...