Search Details

Word: goldings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Democratic and Republican parties have grafted significant amounts of consumer data onto their public-records databases, hoping to discover veins of unmined gold. Increasingly, politics and the personal-data industry are in cahoots. General Wesley Clark, the former presidential candidate and former Acxiom board member, opened doors in Washington for the data giant. And Karl Rove, George W. Bush's top political strategist, worked in the direct-marketing industry before he entered the political arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elect Tech | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

Nonsense. Some $100 billion will be spent on homeland security over the next few years with or without any domestic terrorism, and that provides a rich backdrop for certain defense and technology stocks. Meanwhile, gold and oil are a great hedge against geopolitical turmoil and should do fine anyway, as fast-growing China inhales the world's natural resources. Holding extra cash is a buffer against the unknown and could pay double if you invest it in the teeth of a terrorism sell-off and then wait for the inevitable rebound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: Worst-Case Scenario | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

IDENTIFY LIKELY WINNERS Gold stocks (Barrick, Newmont) and oil services and drillers (Anadarko, Schlumberger) tend to rise amid global turmoil. They also benefit from the kind of global expansion we're now seeing (led by China). Traditional safe-haven stocks like drugs (Pfizer, Merck), tobacco (Altria) and beverages (Anheuser-Busch) would hold up relatively well, and may come into favor anyway because they pay decent dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: Worst-Case Scenario | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...world best for the marathon. She has had success not just in road races and cross-country but on the track too--a far harder arena in which to excel. If she has a little bit of luck in Athens this August, she will add an Olympic gold medal to her collections. But I don't think I'd be breaching confidences if I said that three years ago, many of us never envisioned her winning an Olympic title. She has pleasantly surprised everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paula Radcliffe | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...always have to believe that there is something they can do in the coming season. It's when they can't visualize themselves running any more quickly that they give up. Radcliffe hasn't reached anywhere near that point yet. --BY SEBASTIAN COE, two-time 1,500-m Olympic gold-medal winner

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paula Radcliffe | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Previous | 498 | 499 | 500 | 501 | 502 | 503 | 504 | 505 | 506 | 507 | 508 | 509 | 510 | 511 | 512 | 513 | 514 | 515 | 516 | 517 | 518 | Next