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...certainly impacted the Crimson's performance, while the Rams seemed comfortable battling the elements, cruising to a top finish on their home course. Six Rhode Island players broke the top 15, giving the team a final score of 609 and outdistancing second-place Hartford by a comfortable ten-stroke margin...
Indeed, for the last few years, the CWF has outperformed the stock market as a whole by a wide margin...
Harvard relinquished the lead in the bottom of the eighth as Northeastern compiled a walk and four hits to go ahead by the eventual margin of victory...
...Instead of every dip being a buying opportunity, every rally becomes a chance to unload. "For the first time in a while, people have got really scared," notes longtime bear Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He was expecting more selling this week, fueled by margin calls, margin-related liquidations and fidgety institutions. Mutual-fund investors, generally, have been holding on, Biggs says, though they haven't been aggressive buyers, and some fund companies got hit with redemptions. [What should you do? For advice on riding out volatile markets, see my column on page...
...Margin calls. Panic. Busted nest eggs. Is this what Alan Greenspan had in mind when he began raising interest rates last June? Well, yes. To a degree anyway. And given discouraging news on inflation last Friday--the CPI has been rising at a 5.8% annual clip this year, the government reported--don't look for Greenspan to stop boosting rates soon. The ominous prospect of more rate increases, along with basic valuation questions, sent both the NASDAQ and the Dow average on another wild ride...