Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a furtive eye on the clock, I scan through my mail index quickly, so as not to be more than ten minutes late to my next class. Amid the usual assortment of friendly "letters" I notice an unfamiliar name, a certain Debbie Mayer from the University of Wisconsin. After a brief description of her life, she asks, "Write back if you want to. It would be cool to have an e-mail...
Underlying this success is the buoyancy of individual stocks. Every major U.S. stock index has been hitting new highs. At the same time, foreign exchanges from Singapore to Stockholm have been setting records of their own (see box). All that makes the pros nervous. "By the 5th of November, if we don't have a 10% drop, we will have had the longest-running stock-market expansion in modern times," says A. Michael Lipper, president of Lipper Analytical Services, which tracks mutual funds. "We're clearly long in the tooth." Says Dan Case, president of the San Francisco-based brokerage...
...certificates of deposit dropping to their lowest levels ever and stocks at near record highs, IPOs look irresistible. They tend to outperform the market, at least in the beginning. The payback on this year's IPOs has hovered around 30%, compared with 5.3% for the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks. IPOs also give investors an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of what might be the next Apple Computer or Microsoft. But for every Microsoft, there are five flops, like MathSoft. And that's what makes market watchers nervous...
Subjects were labelled overweight if they had abody mass index, based on weight and height,greater than 95 percent of the national populationof the same...
...includes an index which allows people who do not want to read through all the debates to follow a particular argument--such as slavery or the Bill of Rights--from beginning...