Word: investments
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...million women and 400,000 men were stalked in America in 1996. De Becker advises stalkees to administer one brush-off and engage in no subsequent contact. Discouragement by a male friend, he reports, usually backfires. Don't change phone numbers--the stalker "always" finds the new one--but invest in a second line, arming the first with an answering machine. "The stalker won't realize you've changed, and you'll have a record of his calls if you need...
Just what is index investing? Nothing more than buying all the stocks that make up an index in an effort to replicate in your own portfolio the index's gains or losses. Now some market analysts are finding an insidious side to this seemingly logical procedure. The knock is that index funds are a perpetual investment machine, mindlessly buying the stocks that constitute the index, so as cash rolls in, the index moves higher, without regard for the prices being paid. Critics say the Dow Jones industrial average, which passed 8000 last week, did so well ahead of its rightful...
...shortage of highly-trained workers in Massachusetts. Companies have dozens, even hundreds of unfilled, high-wage positions. One fact is clear: our policies should be targeted at expanding the pool of highly-skilled workers. Our strategy should reinforce Massachusetts' leadership in higher education and create incentives for individuals to invest in their own educational advancement...
...convergence of television and computers got a big push last week when a couple of digital-era bosses, Microsoft king Bill Gates and Brian Roberts, president of Comcast Corp., agreed on a deal in which Microsoft will invest $1 billion for an 11.5% stake in the Philadelphia company, the nation's fourth largest cable operator, with 4.3 million subscribers. Gates and Roberts intend to provide what the other cable guys promised years ago and so far have been unable to deliver: a new set of digital services and a bigger pipeline to pump it through. For viewers that means more...
...each other at a Seattle restaurant seven weeks ago at a dinner Gates was giving for visiting cable executives. Since it was his nickel, Gates complained about the slow pace at which cable-TV outfits were upgrading their systems to carry Internet traffic. Roberts retorted, "Why don't you invest in the cable industry? It would make a really strong statement...