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...many investors, market analysts and the brash young things with their big dreams. In the past year, the combined value of all nasdaq stocks has fallen by more than $3 trillion. On this side of the Atlantic, the combined value of stocks in London's ftse techMARK 100 index has dropped by over $93 billion. In the markets, black humor has replaced boundless optimism, and the word dotcom has become first dotbomb and then dotgone...
Friday's round of economic reports were led by two bits of good news floating in the recent sea of economic troubles. February's Producer Price Index, which measures inflation pressures before they reach store shelves, gained a measly 0.1 percent after a big pop in January had everybody thinking stagflation...
...haven't even mentioned Indiana! No Bobby Knight, but this team's a sleeper, a dark horse, an underdog from the Big 10. The Bald-Dome Index says Indiana's going to go far! Mike Davis, what a coach! Gotta love him! Of course, Bobby Knight's a great coach too. I'm not knocking Mr. Knight. Bobby, what a guy! He's a superstar, baby! Texas Tech would be so lucky to get him! So would UMass. If Bobby came to town, there'd be a party in the Mullins Center. Party in the Mullins, baby! Go Bobby...
...Monday, the NASDAQ dropped more than 6 percent and found a low - 1923 - not seen since December 1998; the mind-blowing 15-month rally that pushed the tech-heavy index to beyond 5000 on March 10 of last year is now utterly erased. The Dow dropped, er, only 4.1 percent (a measly 436 points) as each and every one of the index's 30 stocks lost ground. And the S&P 500 finally slipped into official "bear market" territory, now 23 percent off its highs and tasting those same December 1998 depths as the NASDAQ...
Bial's exam, the Bial-Dale College Adaptability Index, has been nicknamed the Lego Test for a 10-minute portion that asks small groups of students to reproduce a relatively complicated Lego robot. One at a time, students are allowed to go and look at the structure, which is placed in another room, but they can't take notes. In another tested activity, students lead a group discussion on a topic drawn from an envelope. In both cases, observers are watching to see who takes initiative, who collaborates well and who is persistent...