Word: koteshwar
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When Brad Koteshwar, a private investor in Scottsdale, Ariz., decided to sink $6,000 into the stock of a hot local company, stun-gun maker Taser International, in January 2004, he knew it was risky. The stock price had already soared nearly 2000% in 2003, and that kind of phenomenal growth just can't last forever. "We got in a little late," admits Koteshwar, who with his wife Sheila also holds seminars and publishes a newsletter on stock investing. But police departments from Kansas City, Mo., to San Jose, Calif., were placing large orders for Taser's weapons, which emit...
Amazingly, Koteshwar was able to cash out with $18,000 in profit after just four months. Taser went on to become the best-performing stock of 2004, more than quadrupling in price--despite the emergence of a potentially chilling scandal in late November: Amnesty International issued a 93-page report detailing 74 deaths in the U.S. and Canada of people who had been hit with a Taser, and calling for a moratorium on the weapons until more independent medical-safety studies were conducted. Yet after a brief stall, Taser's stock continued its upward climb, hitting an all-time high...
...sprayed half and drank half." CHINNA KOTESHWAR RAO, farmer in India's Andhra Pradesh state, on the growing practice of using cola as crop pesticide. Coca-Cola calls such use of its product "totally ineffective...
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