Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stronger outfit than B.U., and its system gave us problems. We all knew B.U well, and were familiar with the way they played, but Cornell was an unknown outfit. It took us a long time, most of the game, to get used to their style. That made a huge difference...
...prices are so low that you can get a 180-MHz Pentium-compatible system with a fast modem, huge hard drive, lots of memory, multimedia equipment and a decent monitor for less than $1,000--prices never seen for comparably priced equipment in industry history...
...volume purchasing," he said. "For instance, Store 24 is a chain store, and they buy huge amounts of Coke nationally. So they can have special contracts with Coca-Cola to buy items for much cheaper prices, which then allow them to sell these items much more cheaply...
...well during the privatization of the Russian economy in the early '90s. Perhaps their biggest break came in 1995. Nearly bankrupt, the government offered shares in some of the country's biggest concerns, like oil and mineral resources. The oligarchs gained control of one enterprise after another at huge discounts from their real value...
...trampled investors so often in the past. With a big market drop, the equity culture--the faith--just dies out as investors see other assets start to zoom higher, as gold and real estate did in the '70s. They shift to those asset classes and end up missing huge initial gains when stocks eventually, inevitably, bounce back. That kind of behavior destroys any argument for the public's easily attaining the long-term average annual returns that stocks offer...