Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the score now 2-1 in favor of the Bears, things looked dim for the Crimson. At No.5, Clark had won his first set but was down in the second. No.2 Doran, No.3 Majmudar and No.4 Green had all lost their first sets and now needed to win two straight to get the point...
...will best Bibi by a margin of 49 percent to 38 percent today. However, these statistics may not be attributable to James Carville's deft spinning or Arthur Finkelstein's campaign blunders. Rather, the polls more likely reflect the fact that the electoral landscape has tipped in Barak's favor over the last few days. Thus far, the race between Netanyahu and Barak has been neck and neck. Therefore, every percentage point counts. Very recently, the Israeli-Arab prime ministerial candidate, Azmi Bishara, dropped out of the race in order to give Barak his 2 percent Arab vote. Similarly, Barak...
This turnabout points up a broad trend in the market. Dare I say it? New-economy firms are out of favor. Since March 31, the smokestack-vintage Dow Jones industrial average has risen 1,000 points, while the tech-laden nasdaq has gone flatter than steel slab. In that period aluminum maker Alcoa rose a shiny 55% and joined heavy industrials such as 3M and Phelps-Dodge in posting heady gains. Tech wonders, including Cisco, Microsoft and Intel, floundered...
This remarkable shift came without warning, and is a clear illustration of why you should spread your stock bets over many industries. There's just no telling when a group will come into favor, and the biggest payday is reserved for those who are in the stocks before they start to move...
...plenty of people who are willing to take the gun control issue into the 2000 campaign -- including one prominent Republican presidential candidate. Seeking to distinguish herself from the conservative GOP presidential pack, Elizabeth Dole told an audience earlier this week that she?s against concealed weapons and in favor of child-safety locks on guns...