Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started Rowe Concessions, a vending-machine-supply company that now has 30 employees. They got a big boost from the city of Atlanta with contracts to supply municipal buildings and the city-run airport with vending machines. The contracts end in 1999. "I don't want a handout. Just level the playing field," Rowe says. "People in charge of procurement are going to deal with people they know socially...
...summits, the two key Presidents seemed to be dragging each other down. Clinton's lackluster public performance only seemed to emphasize the feeble condition of his host country. Yeltsin's failing faculties and crumbling power base reflected badly on the strong backing the U.S. has given him. At one level, Clinton's tough-love advice to "play by the rules" of free-market democracy is sound advice, but it may well be ignored. To citizens around the world anxiously weighing the turbulent course of events, the summit looked like Potemkin leadership...
...stay in the game but are looking for a relatively safe harbor, consider Real Estate Investment Trusts, whose 6% yields offer unusual protection. Or buy other high-yielding stocks--especially blue chips that you can count on to thrive long-term. High yield today is anything over 3%, a level that may indicate the stock has been unfairly trashed and will do well in coming quarters. Among the highest-yielding Dow stocks are Philip Morris (4.1%), J.P. Morgan (4.4%) and General Motors (3.5%). Other stocks to own might include those of consumer-products companies, a group that lost far less...
...find that your new-car money is gone--don't despair. The worst is probably over. Still, you don't want to risk the grocery money too. You're way ahead if you've been in the market more than a year, so just sell down to your comfort level. But don't overdo it and try to time a further drop. You'll only end up selling at the bottom and cursing the market all the way back...
...overlooked. As a fourth-grader, Brian was placed in a cramped class of 34 students; midway through the school year, the teacher left, and a succession of substitutes took over. By the time Brian started fifth grade, his reading skills were a full year below grade level. "Basically," his mother says, "he got ignored for an entire year...