Word: instantly
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When the initial share price of these new offerings is set too low by the brokerage firms handling them, it can lead to instant windfalls for those lucky enough to be let in on the ground floor. Celestial Seasonings, a hip purveyor of herbal teas, went public at $20 a share on July 13, and by the end of the day was selling at more than $29. Back Yard Burgers, a fast-food chain based in Memphis, Tennessee, offered itself at $6 a share and shot up the next day to $10.25. On average, the price of IPO shares jumps...
...with many kinds of monoclonal antibodies for 15 years and that success in mice has spawned only limited benefit in people. Back in the 1980s, Wall Street briefly went wild over the stocks of companies developing antibody therapies, but repeated disappointments and unfulfilled promises taught investors to stop expecting instant miracles...
Reno's popularity has taken her by surprise, but she had not spent any length of time in the capital before. It is a city that loves a character, and the early profiles of her Florida upbringing invited an instant mythology. Here she came, trailing swamp stories and reptiles, a self-described awkward old maid with a sensible name and big, sensible shoes, a bracing contrast to the precious professionals that the city seasonally absorbs. "I can be impatient," she told reporters last week, preferring to skewer herself rather than let them do it for her. "I do have...
...Scottish study says drinkers of coffee -- especially instant -- have less chance of heart disease than nondrinkers...
...biggest retreat he has made so far to achieve passage of his enormous budget package, President Bill Clinton abandoned his complicated $72 million energy tax to placate Senate Democrats who opposed it. Clinton's almost instant capitulation provoked an outcry among Democrats in the House, who had already taken the political risk of voting to approve Clinton's BTU-based energy tax. "I think we've been left hanging out on a plank, and I must say I don't like it," lamented Colorado's Patricia Schroeder. Though the White House still wants some kind of energy...