Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Netscape officials, who predicted that the company would be profitable next year, said some facilities would be closed and an undisclosed number of workers would be laid off. But Wall Street, stung by estimates that the company would put up a solid 14-cents-per-share gain, was not amused, and Netscape stock sank to $18 5/16 in early afternoon trading. Company stock has lost over half its value since early October on fears that it will be the big loser in its browser war with Microsoft. With Microsoft's Internet Explorer gaining popularity, the investors just might be right...
...lowest level in almost 25 years. Labor-force participation has also improved: the proportion of working-age people with jobs is the highest ever recorded. Wage stagnation seems to be ending: earnings have risen more than 4% in the past 12 months, which is the greatest gain in 20 years when adjusted for inflation. The Dow is at 7756, more than doubling in three years, and corporate profits are at their highest level ever. Yet inflation is a negligible 2%, and even the dour Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan seems confident enough in the new economy to keep interest rates...
...only holy to the church but sacred to the nation. From the son of Sheba 3,000 years ago descended an unbroken line of Ethiopian Emperors down to the people's revolution in 1974. Today Axum is the capital of Tigrai province, which fought for years to gain independence but instead won control of the entire country six years ago. When the devout finally arrive back home, their neighbors will wash their feet and drink the bath water to share in the blessing...
Walking into a conference room at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Baghdad for a private meeting on Dec. 14, U.N. inspection chief RICHARD BUTLER thought he was there to gain access to SADDAM HUSSEIN's palaces and Republican Guard facilities. Instead he encountered four video cameras mounted on tripods. Their purpose was just to make an accurate record of the meeting, promised Deputy Prime Minister TARIQ AZIZ. Nothing will be leaked, he said. Aziz then delivered Iraq's bottom line: inspectors would never be allowed in the palaces or most other sensitive facilities. Later that night, Butler flipped...
...That didn't stop South Korean stocks from going through the roof Monday. Seoul's Korea Composite Stock Price index racked up its largest single-day percentage gain, jumping 25.98 points, or about 7 percent, to close at 385.80. Rallies on Saturday (yes, this is a market that trades on Saturday) and Monday more than undid Friday's plunge, when the Composite sank 7 percent to a 10-year low. What caused the turnaround? The catalyst seems to have been a series of statements over the weekend by South Korean leaders, who vowed to "fully implement the agreement reached with...