Word: longer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple of points bear mentioning. First, Internet stocks are still up for the year--again of 24%, as measured by TheStreet.com Internet index. Second, Net investors who have been at the game longer than six months may still have sizable profits. The carnage has been largely confined to pure Internet stocks--such retailers as Amazon.com and eBay; communities like iVillage.com and TheGlobe.com media companies Marketwatch.com and TheStreet. com; and portals such as Yahoo and America Online. Many stocks that benefit from the Internet but don't depend on it to sell their goods have held up well...
Rising interest rates helped bring that about. In Wall Street's perverse logic, higher rates, reflecting a robust economy--employment figures last Friday were strong--and the threat of inflation, are seen as negative because they threaten to slow the economy longer term and put off Internet profits further into the future...
...congressmen has written to President Clinton warning of the "drift" in U.S. policy on Iraq, and urging that Saddam Hussein be given a new deadline for compliance with arms-control requirements or face a new round of intense bombing. Although air strikes on Iraq hardly make the paper any longer, let alone the front page, the U.S. and Britain have fired 1,100 missiles at 359 targets this year alone (and flown about 65 percent of the number of missions carried out during the Kosovo conflict). The low-key air war, which followed four days of intense bombing in response...
...latest little war in the Caucasus -- with their political freedom. Although Moscow has admitted losing only 10 troops in a week of fighting and has vowed to drive Islamic insurgents out of Dagestan within two weeks, Russian reinforcements pouring into the region amid intensified fighting Friday suggest a longer and more brutal conflict. Back in Moscow, there?s widespread speculation that President Boris Yeltsin will use the Dagestan fighting as a pretext to declare a state of emergency -? which would allow him to cling to power by canceling December?s parliamentary elections and next summer?s presidential poll...
...rather than low-level commanders who may have an ax to grind - and by instituting tolerance training of the troops from boot camp on. After five years, says TIME writer-reporter John Cloud, the new policy has improved the situation for gays in only one significant way: "Homosexuals no longer get a dishonorable discharge when they leave," he says. "That means they get to keep their benefits...