Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were interested in running for the council, but were worried they would lose since they share the same friends...
Some advisers think the high minimum isn't such a bad thing. Maybe betting the nest egg on hype-heavy IPOs is just another way for middle-class families to lose their shirts to financiers who wear nicer shirts to begin with. What will happen the first time Wit sells shares of some loser at $12 and they promptly sink to, say, $4? "These deals tend to be highly volatile," says a banking executive. "They appeal to people who can afford a certain amount of risk. But the mom-and-pops? God love 'em. It's not easy...
...orders. Through July, existing homes were selling at a record annual rate of more than 4 million. Much of the activity is baby boomers' trading up to bigger houses, a trend that N.A.R. economist Fred Flick says will persist. So there's no reason to expect house prices to lose out to inflation in the foreseeable future...
...Chicago journalist Susan Schwendener, the symptoms were as familiar as the runny nose of a cold or the scratchiness of a strep throat. "You can't sleep, you can't eat, you lose weight because your mood's so blue." Schwendener, 33, suffered her first bout of depression as a teenager. She started taking Prozac 10 years ago. "The pain," she says, "sort of evaporated over time." By the age of 21, Beth Herwig, now an executive assistant in St. Louis, Mo., tipped the scales at more than 500 lbs. At 29, after years of yo-yo dieting...
Finally, the development of Prozac led to a number of surprises--the discovery that it was good for obsessive-compulsive disorder, for example, as well as for panic disorder and social phobias. Clinicians also noticed that Prozac patients tended to lose weight, an intriguing finding, considering how many Americans are obese. But the weight loss was transitory, so Lilly scientists went back into the lab to see if they could reformulate Prozac as an effective obesity drug...