Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wouldn't mind if WISH were mandatory, but I don't think I would persuade the FDO to that effect," laughs Ducey...
Paine Webber's stock has dropped some 40 percent from a year-long high in mid-August to its current level at the end of trading Friday, but a spokesperson said the stock's volatility would have "no effect" on the company's recruiting plans...
...Here's the question that should be asked:Before randomization, you had small communities ofcolor in the Quad and Quincy House," Sheats says."What was the effect of randomization of on thesecommunities? Has there been an effect? Was it fairto break up these communities...
Only 21 months ago, with the Dow at 6500, Greenspan was warning against "irrational exuberance" in the stock market. Several other wise elders expressed hope that last week's correction will have the cleansing effect of strengthening the historic relationship between stock valuations and the earnings of the underlying companies--a notion that had fallen out of favor after years of "momentum investing," in which all that mattered was that someone would buy the hot stock that some greater fool would soon bid up to an even higher price. The price-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 has approached...
...slumping stock market can certainly add to the drag on a slowing economy, through the so-called wealth effect. In a rising market, economists estimate that for every dollar of increased wealth, consumers spend an additional 4[cents]. And they often stop spending that money when their stock gains erode. If $2 trillion has been lost from investors' pockets over the past seven weeks, then at 4[cents] on the dollar we could expect an $80 billion drop in annual consumer spending, or about 1% of the total U.S. economy. While that alone is not enough to stop the economy...