Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Rice, there are more telephones in Manhattan than in all of Africa, and 50 percent of all Africans are under the age of 15. She hinted that these statistics, along with Africa's climbing growth rates, are just the tip of the African business opportunity iceberg...
...missionary named Denis Burkitt suggested that the reason colon cancer is rare in Africa is that Africans consume much more fiber than North Americans and Europeans. Perhaps, later researchers argued, the extra fiber sweeps the bowel clean of potential carcinogens or somehow alters the intestinal chemistry to retard tumor growth. A few small studies supported the link, while others didn...
...there lies the rub. Odds are you're already overinvested in the stock of your employer. Credit the explosive growth of 401(k) retirement plans, in which a growing number of participants receive a matching contribution in their employer's stock. In such plans, participants on average hold 54.6% of their assets in their employer's stock and, amazingly, many are raising that allocation even further, the Investment Company Institute reported last Thursday. The proliferation of stock options further skews more and more Americans' holdings toward the stock of their employer. What's more, some of your best ideas...
Human experience suggests that one of the least valuable measures of human progress is a long and healthy life. It is more often the genetic mishaps that enable us to see beyond functionality to a different essence of human value. We need to be patient because the growth rate of knowledge far outstrips our comprehension. It is only with the grace of understanding that we can make wise judgments about the use of knowledge. KEN WHELAN San Francisco...
Investors buy prospects, and the prospects are for a year of record earnings at Intel and another year of monster growth at Yahoo. But the volatility in tech and the Net in particular has increased dramatically, to the point where only thrill seekers can bank solely on the latter. At one point last week, with Yahoo up 90 points, to 443, I let go some stock, and was happy to buy it back some 100 points lower a day later, when, despite reporting blowout earnings, it had fallen with the rest of the Net stocks...