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...first race of the regatta, Harvard faced the Naval Academy’s lightweight boat, an opponent the Crimson beat by nine seconds during the dual season. Harvard repeated its victory over the Naval Academy at Henley, with a margin of a length and a quarter...
...business plan didn't work in either case. Such door-to-door dotcoms, it seems, either can't get enough customers, or get too many that spend too little (thus spending more on delivery costs than they make back on the sale of low-margin comestibles). If I have one clear vision of the future, it's of my slack-jawed grandchildren begging to hear again about what it was like to live in the height of the mythical door-to-door boom. Yes Virginia, you really could get a candy bar and a copy of Spartacus within minutes without...
...little extra margin of safety, choose lenses that are "polarized." This cuts down on glare by deflecting the sunlight that bounces off such smooth surfaces as sand, water and pavement...
...based on his client's assets and investment experience. The client, a 73-year-old bookkeeper in Hollywood, Fla., agreed to put nearly $200,000--or roughly 80% of his liquid net worth--into a stock he'd never heard of, Sigma Design. "I was buying like crazy on margin," says the bamboozled bookkeeper. "And I got wiped...
Meanwhile, NASD is cranking out new rules to protect investors from themselves as well as from overzealous stock pickers. From now until November, and once a year after that, brokers must send a letter to each margin customer spelling out the risks associated with such accounts. This fall NASD and the New York Stock Exchange will raise the daily cash requirement for day traders from $2,000 to $25,000 and reduce the time they have to meet margin calls from seven days to five. NASD has also decreed that online recommendations must be tailored to a customer's investment...