Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they bring discussion to a halt. While lively and penetrating debates can be had about interpretation of the literature or theoretical arguments studied in class, it is nearly impossible to take issue with an X, Y statement, making them somewhat attractive to practitioners but unhelpful to anyone's intellectual growth...
...today is not the stereotypical Ireland of perfectly thatched homes, leprechauns, fairies and gold at the end of the rainbow. Nor is it the dank, gloomy and oppressive place that some writers portray. Rather, this "Celtic Tiger" is rearing its head and roaring at long last with an economic growth. It is a nation that takes ancient forms and smartly and beautifully updates them to light the end of the 20th century. It is a nation that, in the North, is finally nearing a peaceful resolution to hundreds of years of conflict with the descendants of English invaders. Yet Ireland...
...sepia tones around the world. He once sold his wares store to store in a bomber jacket and jeans, and leveraged a line of wide neckties into a wider life-style empire with annual revenues of $1.47 billion and profits of $120 million. Until this year, Polo/RL sported growth rates a technology firm would envy...
...learned the hard way that the only trend that matters on the Street is the direction your earnings are going. And Polo's haven't been going in the preferred direction. Polo's net income has been down two of the past three quarters, and this year earnings growth is projected at an anemic 4.2%, well below 1998's sizzling 35%. The stock has had its price taken in, from the high of $33 to last week's $21, during which time the market has increased 35%. That has cost Lauren some $500 million in net worth; he still owns...
...scene of some ugly collisions. Fashion companies--and Lauren has been an exception--tend to have lousy managers. The list of fashion victims includes Donna Karan, Liz Claiborne, Guess?, Mossimo and Nautica. The only hot fashion stock is, ironically, Ralph-licate designer Tommy Hilfiger, which is projecting earnings growth of 58% this year, taking the stock...