Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...land will probably serve--at least in part--an academic purpose, officials said. A committee has been studying the University's long-term space needs and its potential for growth since 1998; in two years, it will make a recommendation to the administration, Fineberg said...
...sense of pushing out personal boundaries. According to American Sports Data Inc., a consulting firm, participation in so-called extreme sports is way up. Snowboarding has grown 113% in five years and now boasts nearly 5.5 million participants. Mountain biking, skateboarding, scuba diving, you name the adventure sport--the growth curves reveal a nation that loves to play with danger. Contrast that with activities like baseball, touch football and aerobics, all of which have been in steady decline throughout...
...sense. When interest rates are rising, the last thing you want to own is banks and brokerages, whose cost of money goes up and whose lending and other businesses tend to slow. You also want to avoid highly speculative (read Internet) companies with little or no earnings. Even steady growth stocks like food and beverages tend to lag as their earnings cheapen in an inflationary climate. Fixed-income investors should avoid longer-term securities because prices fall as rates rise, and if you have to sell before a bond matures, you could lose money...
...that this summer's boosts in short-term rates are enough to stop inflation cold. If that's the case, the logic of the previous two paragraphs applies--in reverse. No one said this is easy. You'd want to avoid T bills and cyclicals and own bonds and growth stocks, including techs and bank stocks too. A good growth-stock fund should cover most of the bases...
...that seems to be the smartest play. Inflation worries have driven growth stocks, including Merck and Philip Morris, 20% lower. Some tech stocks (AT&T) are way cheaper too. Internet stocks, if you're so inclined (I'm not), have fallen even more. Yet the Fed has had the right answer for every new-age inflation scare. Why bet against Alan Greenspan now? It could be that the new era deserves a new truism. Forget stumble. Call it three steps and a start...