Word: lynches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coming, Thailand devalued its currency, the baht, on July 2. Thai stocks promptly skidded 30% and sent tremors through markets in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Stock funds heavily invested in the region fell an average 13%, with some--including Landmark Emerging Asia and Merrill Lynch Emerging Tigers--falling more than 30%, according to Lipper Analytical Services...
That may be true, but skeptics are worried that the company is expanding so fast into so many unrelated fields that it could become increasingly difficult to manage. To avoid becoming a victim of its own success, SIHL has begun hiring executives from Merrill Lynch, Credit Lyonnais and other major foreign companies--capitalists at the service of communist- owned capitalism. --Reported by Lynne Curry/Hong Kong...
...report by Forrester Research puts the amount of assets invested online in 1997 at $120 billion and projects that by 2002 the number will rise to $688 billion. Already, cyberspace brokerages like E*TRADE and e.Schwab are filching millions of dollars in business from land-based icons like Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney by using the Web's data-processing efficiencies to cut pricing to the bone. E*TRADE charges a commission as low as $14.95 for a 100-share trade. e.Schwab's online fees are $29.95. A trade by phone through Fidelity costs $48. E*TRADE CEO Christos Cotsakos...
...famed one is paradoxically as naked as an exile dispossessed. The celebrity enters into a powerful and potentially dangerous force field, a relationship with masses of people gone slightly insane; sometimes he encounters that side of human nature that forms lynch mobs: the beast. A surreal dynamic goes to work. The famous may find their fortunes held hostage by the moods and attention spans of people they do not know. The unstable affections of fandom have a life of their own and acquire an unpredictable but nearly absolute power over one's personal and professional fate. Fame becomes a form...
Sophomore Beth Weisman (.750 save percentage, 1.00 goals-against-average) needed just two saves to make the win. Sophomore Meghan Lynch, who has split time in the net with Weisman, has a .571 save percentage...