Word: huges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which tracks the online industry, expects that the number of accounts will more than quadruple by 2002, to more than 18 million. There are now upwards of 8.4 million active Internet users with portfolios in excess of $100,000, according to @plan, a Connecticut market research firm. "There are huge numbers of people on the Internet with sizable portfolios who aren't yet shopping for stocks and mutual funds online," says Mark Wright, @plan's CEO. As a result, notes Eugene Ludwig, former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, the projected growth curve for online trading "looks like a ski slope...
...bigger concern, Rayner says, echoing Rabun, was that Faye took on cases indiscriminately, and as a consequence the organization drew lashes from screaming dads, the FBI and attorneys who slapped huge lawsuits on them. It was important, Rayner says, that they harbor only women and children in the most obvious cases of horrible sexual abuse and judicial malpractice. About 350,000 cases of in-family abductions are reported each year in the U.S.--nearly 1,000 a day--and almost every one of them is a complicated mess that can't be easily judged by anyone, as Rayner sees...
...auto meets mass-market American car. They marry, and await the pitter-patter of $131 billion in annual worldwide sales. That's the love story Wall Street would like to write for Daimler Benz and Chrysler, who went public with their wooing Wednesday. Why? Because the dowry would be huge: Sources close to the deal say Daimler would buy their bride for $35 billion, a full $8 billion above Chrysler's market value. Such a wedding would make for the largest industrial merger in history...
...line and form is always tempered by a certain rhythmic sweetness, as in one of the masterpieces of Calder's middle years, The Spider, 1940. Later, as he got famous and "monumental" commissions were pressed on him, he would defeat this quality of his own work by building huge sluggish mobiles--one of which, 76 ft. wide, hangs permanently over the atrium of the National Gallery--that would need a hurricane to budge them and are parodies of his original, lyrical insight. He was always best on the small-to-medium scale. And compared with his best mobiles, his "stabiles...
...osteoporosis medicine, could also be effective in preventing heart disease and breast cancer in older women. Clinical trials of the drug's ability to stave off heart attacks begins in May, with testing of the impact on breast cancer to start later this year. The implications could be huge for Lilly. Carl Seiden, an analyst who follows the drug industry for J.P. Morgan Securities, says sales of Evista as an osteoporosis remedy alone could approach $2 billion...