Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billion between the beginning of the year and Aug. 31, largely on the strength of a 50% rise in Time Warner stock. "Hey, not bad," Turner recalls thinking at the time. "Why not go for the billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane Fonda, over dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria ("She burst into tears" of joy, he says), Turner stunned an audience that included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan by announcing from the podium that over 10 years he will give $1 billion to fund U.N. programs...
...idea: pool investors' money into bids that win a 5%-to-10% share of some of these deals. The site witcapital.com already has the specs on Wit's first IPO, an Israeli networking-software firm called Radcom Ltd. Now, whether Radcom will make you a quick killing or make you the quick killing is unknown. The big news is that you and I can read Radcom's prospectus and purchase its stock as early as the chairman of Goldman Sachs...
...like Post-it notes, an idea so impeccable it's hard to imagine that it once didn't exist. Some 3,500 intrepid souls bought $1.6 million in stock via the Spring Street Website; 18 months and numerous SEC consultations later, Klein hopes that by year's end 100,000 customers will each have invested around $16,000--a total of $16 billion--in Wit Capital...
Brian Goodman, 20, is obsessed with the idea that disaster and death are about to strike his family. The only way to stave off catastrophe, his mind tells him, is to follow self-imposed rituals to the absolute letter: making coffee in a way that never varies, driving around Los Angeles along the same route every day. A classic victim of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Goodman has been in treatment since he was seven, without much change. Now he is on Zoloft. "Before the medicine," he says, "it was like living in hell...
...1960s, a second class of antidepressants emerged. By tinkering with the chemical structure of antihistamines, a Swiss psychiatrist, Ronald Kuhn, created a drug called imipramine, first of the so-called tricyclic antidepressants. At the time no one had any idea why these medicines worked. Researchers have since learned that they keep excess serotonin and other neurotransmitters from being reabsorbed into the nerve cells they originally came from: same extended neurotransmitter bath as the MAO inhibitors, different mechanism...