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...general, use options only in tandem with stocks in your portfolio--to lock in gains and protect against events like an earnings report or a court ruling. There are exceptions, like Grandma's bull-call spread. That's a fairly conservative play in which you buy one long-term call option and sell another at a higher strike price. You lock in most of the difference--though the stock must go up, and if it goes way up, you lose the excess gain. If you've got a big portfolio, odds are there is an options strategy for you. Talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Know Your Options | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Just harmless roughhousing? Not according to critics, including many from the pro-wrestling industry. "If I had a kid doing it, I'd lock him in his bedroom," says Verne Langdon, a trainer and owner of Slammers Wrestling Gym in Studio City, Calif. "Pros don't always set a good example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suburban Smackdown | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...Yale: 1. New Haven lock factory. 2. Where you would have had to go if you didn't get into Harvard...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvardisms: Harvard for Beginners | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...telephone, the automobile, television and jet air travel accelerated for a while, transforming society along the way, but then settled into a manageable rate of change. Each was eventually rewarded more for staying the same than for radically transforming itself--a stable, predictable, reliable condition known as "lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Technology Moving Too Fast? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...brake itself. In the aging population of the developed world, many people are already tired of trying to keep up with the latest cool new tech. Youth-driven tech acceleration could be interpreted as simple youthful folly--shortsighted, disruptive, faddish. The market for change could dry up, and lock-in might again become the norm. Stress and fatigue make powerful decelerators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Technology Moving Too Fast? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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