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...like Amazon that have no earnings but just might become the next Microsoft or Dell. Their solution: simply replace the E in the ratio with something else--revenues, cash flow, new orders or what have you. And if the company should be a fast-growing market leader, or the kingpin in a field with barriers to entry, the P/E ratio could top 100 and analysts would still be calling it a buy. Until recently, they had a case; value investors missed out on the NASDAQ's huge move last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Basics: How to Value a Stock | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

Consider consumer-products kingpin Procter & Gamble, which a couple of weeks ago stuck its nose into a three-way pharmaceutical fray involving Pfizer, Warner Lambert and American Home Products--hoping to come away with Warner Lambert and its cholesterol-reducing wonder drug Lipitor. P&G, maker of Cascade and Crest, knows about cleaning. But getting rid of plaque on your teeth and doing the same for your arteries are two very different businesses. Maybe that's why the P&G gambit fell apart last week. Still, this isn't the first time P&G has tried to branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Merge | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...most notorious exemplar, though, is bin Laden, the Saudi-born terror kingpin charged with organizing the embassy bombings that killed 224 in Kenya and Tanzania two years ago. But even he represents only one part of the new-style problem: hundreds or perhaps thousands of tiny cells, each made up of a few like-minded zealots, nearly impossible to penetrate and linked only loosely through shared finances and training grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Year's Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Oddballs are Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski's specialty. Five years ago, the screenwriting partners turned the life of cross-dressing B-movie director Ed Wood into a critically acclaimed film starring Johnny Depp. Next they wrote The People vs. Larry Flynt, a Capraesque portrait of the porno kingpin who won a First Amendment case before the Supreme Court, with Woody Harrelson in the title role. But even for these masters of the "anti-biopic," which they describe as a movie biography of someone who doesn't really deserve one, telling the story of comedian Andy Kaufman presented a challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Odd Fellows | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...always excelled at playing the man-child--an accomplished individual who nonetheless has rampant immaturity in his genes (think Ghostbusters)--and he plays Blume with a smart mix of wisdom and adolescence. Over the last several years, Murray has carved a nice niche for himself with meaty supporting roles (Kingpin, Wild Things), and he continues the tradition with Rushmore. Whether stuffing a little kid on a playground basketball court or running over Max's bike and carrying it nonchalantly back to the bike rack, Murray is perfectly tuned into the essence of Herman Blume. Schwartzman, on the other hand, succeeds...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RUSHMORE ROCKS | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

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