Word: huges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This team saw the lvy League title slip from its fingertips in 1995 and 1996, then last year lost twice in the lvy Tournament after an undefeated lvy run. It is a hungry team, and one capable of challenging for a title despite a huge loss in Elissa Hart. If the younger Hart can ably fill her sister's shoes, problem solved...
Stories like Bellinger's are making minority businesses even more wary of hitching their success to the vagaries of government. For many, though, the prospect of snagging huge federal and municipal contracts is too tempting to pass up. For example, the Wisconsin state legislature authorized $160 million in public funds toward a new baseball stadium in Milwaukee, with 25% of the funds for development, construction and professional services earmarked for minority businesses and 5% for female-owned companies...
...wild as the week may have looked to spectators, in the trenches on Wall Street it was hand-to-hand combat. I tried to make stands on stocks big and small, only to be overwhelmed by huge sellers. Take General Electric: on Friday I bought shares at $75, then $74 and then $73, and then I doubled down at $72 with 18 minutes left before the bell. For a minute, I wanted a hemlock cocktail, as it flashed on my screen that Microsoft had just overtaken GE as the world's largest capitalization stock. But then the mischievous GE seller...
Smack in the American heartland, far from both Wall Street and Asia, the 15,500 workers of Harnischfeger Industries, based in St. Francis, Wis., got slammed from both directions. A proud world beater that builds mining equipment and huge machines that produce 70% of the world's printing paper, Harnischfeger has just seen its sales to Singapore and other troubled Pacific Rim countries drop from $600 million a year to nearly zero. Its stock, riding high at $44 a year ago, was beaten down to $16 in last week's market rout, gutting the 401(k) retirement plans of many...
...speech at the University of California, Berkeley. Then he headed off to join Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin in a meeting where they urged Japan's new Finance Minister to deal with his country's insolvent banks and other financial troubles, which are dragging down not only the huge economy and financial markets of Japan but also those of other Asian countries...