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...very long term, fundamental changes in the economy may have rendered our traditional views of market behavior meaningless. Just look at the size of the herd: baby boomers, all 80 million of them, have a lust for stock that keeps growing. "A substantial number of us are reaching 45 and realizing that we need to save more," says Rodney Trautvetter, CEO of Burke, Christensen, Lewis Securities, a Chicago discount brokerage. "And the historic averages in the stock market still blow out savings accounts...
...what this Crimson team is doing as a unit is not amazing enough to attract fans by the herd, the individual accomplishments should...
American Indians harvested vast quantities of buffalo by stampeding them off cliffs. Because these buffalo ran blindly ahead, they unwittingly followed the rest of the herd to their death. Your recent guide contained no reference to the Macintosh family of computers and contributed to the Windows herd mentality. Shouldn't you ensure that people have their heads up and eyes forward, so they will not run mindlessly off the cliff? GUY KAWASAKI, Apple Fellow Apple Computer Inc. Cupertino, California...
...answer may well be yes. Boosted by the campaigns, milk sales have increased for the first time in decades, up .9% over last year. That's not enough to strain the dairy herd, and milk's not going to be replacing Chardonnay at Hollywood parties. But for a product that's been in a 30-year funk, it's not a bad start to a comeback...
...founding members of THE FIRST WIVES CLUB: What made masses of women ages 25 and older defy long-established patterns by rushing to buy opening-weekend tickets like a crazed herd of young male action-movie fans stampeding to the 16th Die Hard sequel...