Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are not alone. A clutch of new satellite-based services from a half-dozen similar corporate alliances is launching into orbit. They are likely to turn the earth's lower atmosphere into a space jam of communications links promising to keep us in touch--anytime, anywhere. The systems rely on a new version of an old (at least for the aerospace business) and proven technology...
That doesn't mean they weren't both trying to help out. To keep tabs on his skittish members, minority leader Gephardt has divided the Democratic caucus into 10 groups and has been meeting with them regularly to help lower the boil. They're all worried, but about different things: freshmen haven't had the chance to bring home pork-barrel projects; members fighting to survive in marginal races are sifting through their polling data trying to figure out which way to go. Safer veterans need to be bridled before any more of them call for Clinton's head...
What do these insiders see that Wall Street doesn't? Are they thinking that oil prices can fall no lower than they have? Do they know something about OPEC that we don't? No. What these executives see is that their stocks' prices reflect overly pessimistic assumptions by Wall Street--just as those stocks reflected overly optimistic assumptions when many of the same insiders were selling frantically a year ago, for double and triple today's prices...
...looking to offset those gains with losses between now and year's end, for tax purposes. They're going to sell some of their losers, including oil-service stocks. So while these stocks are attractive now--otherwise, remember, insiders wouldn't be buying--their prices might well go lower before they go higher. Decide how much you want to invest, and start buying immediately. But hold some money back to buy more later this year...
First a warning: An alternative treatment for prostate cancer called PC-SPES-a potent mix of eight herbs, including saw palmetto and licorice--may have unwanted side effects. A report out last week finds that while the herbal alternative does lower levels of PSA (a marker for the cancer), it may be linked to breast tenderness, loss of libido and possibly blood clots. Now some guidance for men undergoing traditional care. Those who have a slow-growing cancer can survive for years with conservative treatment, like periodic monitoring or hormonal therapy. But men with more aggressive cancer seem to fare...