Word: higher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure to give soft money can be quite intense," says Kangas. "And the more a business is impacted by federal regulation, the more it feels it doesn't have a choice." While some donors give to candidates who support specific causes--Democrats who want a higher minimum wage, say, or Republicans who favor tort reform--many behave like AT&T. The telecommunications giant has doled out $305,350 to the Democrats in the first six months of the year and an additional $527,050 to the Republicans, cozying up to both parties at a time when the company is battling...
...began in April but stalled over the summer could regain momentum. "That play has been shaken but not yet disproved," notes John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. In the fixed-income world, short-term securities are best because they are easily held to maturity and rolled into higher-paying investments...
...with everything on Wall Street, the trick to profiting from any trend is being right about it in the first place. Despite interest rates that are markedly higher today than a year ago, it's not at all clear that rates will keep climbing. In fact, long-term interest rates--set by bond traders, not the Fed--have tumbled in recent weeks on faith 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...
...keep quiet? Because once you start answering, you're never going to be able to stop. Cocaine? How many times did you do it? Where? Who was your source? (That person might still be at large!) It's like an elevator that has no down button. It just gets higher and higher...
...AIDS cases, Latinos for 14 percent and women for 8 percent, by last year African-Americans accounted for 45 percent of new AIDS cases, Latinos for 22 percent and women for 23 percent. "In some communities the social message hasn?t gotten out and there?s a much higher incidence of risky behavior," says Horowitz. "The challenge for public health officials is to find ways of tailoring the AIDS-prevention message in ways that make such subgroups more receptive." But with two thirds of new AIDS cases now reported in communities whose crises don?t exactly dominate the headlines, that...