Word: fazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if such long odds don't faze you, consider the latest warning shot: stratospheric P/E ratios. Stock prices relative to earnings are the highest they have ever been, according to the research firm I.B.E.S. The average stock trades at nearly 19 times its projected earnings per share over the next 12 months. The previous high was 17, in the early 1960s, a period much like today: low inflation, low interest rates, strong profits. Coca-Cola, to name one, trades at 36 times the earnings Wall Street expects it to enjoy in 1998. Coke is a great company...
...never been one to let a situation faze him, even when Debbie Allen, star of "Fame" and director of "A Different World," was sitting in the audience...
...Professor of Comparitive Literature James L. Kugel was interrupted by multiple fire alarms, which had the unpleasant side effect of cutting off the P.A. system in the theater. Luckily an old portable amp was brought out and the lecture continued. Later Kugel explained why events like this don't faze him anymore...
...less shouted my way through until it left. It was not long before I discovered that the garbage collectors of New Haven made this particular stop regularly every Monday morning at the same time. By the end of that semester, noise or other little disturbances really didn't faze me--well, within reason--and so it is to this...
...party logo nailed to his head. The indictment charges that, aside from various forms of sexual violence, prison guards also regularly beat inmates with steel cables, wrapped them in lighted fuses and then left them to soak in vats of water. While the gruesome accounts did not appear to faze the four defendants, who spent their time doodling with pencils or rolling their eyes in disdain, the trial was not without its surprises. Branislav Tapuskovic, the ethnic Serb lawyer for Croatian defendant Zdravko Mucic, claimed that his client had taken the job as camp commander solely out of a humanitarian...