Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...account for the widening gap? When stocks are flying as they are now, even discerning managers blindly plow money into the big stocks that make up major indexes. They want to hold little cash so it doesn't drag down performance. But the cash comes into their funds so fast that they can't find enough lesser-known stocks to spend it on. So they park ever more money in big stocks, which are easy to buy and sell, while searching for true bargains...
...workplace that have created more than 11 million new jobs since 1991, slashed unemployment to 5.3% and turned the country into the world's hottest job machine. The same forces that have brought high-tech labor shortages to regions from Silicon Valley to Boston's Route 128 corridor are fast transforming Rocky Mountain states from energy, ranching and mining to hubs for job-rich information industries. In parts of the Midwest, manufacturers that survived the industrial meltdown of the past two decades are now the most competitive exporters on earth...
...unprecedented boom. A recent Sunday edition of the Arizona Gazette carried 46 pages of help-wanted ads with large sections devoted to health-care professionals, software engineers and telemarketers. Machine-shop operators in Colorado are hurting for skilled workers--and weeping because they can't find them fast enough to expand. Las Vegas, which already boasts more than 100,000 hotel rooms (as many as San Francisco and New York City combined), has become a construction worker's dream, with plans to add 21,000 more rooms in the next two years...
...worlds has always fascinated me. I've met so many people who work in the movies and in TV who come from upper-middle-class New England families, and they're really out of touch with what the rest of the country is thinking. Whenever I see a fast-food place in a movie, it's always some '50s-looking thing or a building with a giant chicken on it. It's so over...
...There were two manholes, and they were just flooding with water," said Chris H. Kwak '97. "It was coming out pretty fast...