Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amount of downsizing that freed up a lot of individuals who are now coming back" into the work force. Also, "second wage earners"--primarily wives and husbands--who may not have been counted as unemployed because they were not actively seeking jobs are now being pulled into the job market. Finally, "you have a million legal immigrants [coming] into the U.S. each year." Though it would be too much to hope for a 1999 inflation rate as low as last year's 1.6%, Battipaglia thinks consumer prices will rise only around 2.5% this year and perhaps...
...does all this mean that the economy and the stock market will roll merrily along to ever greater heights? On that, board opinion divides sharply...
...says, "the market is roughly at fair value. Stocks are priced about where we think they should be. So I think we have moved from an abnormal period of wonderful returns into a normal period of good returns." Amplifying the thought, Farrell sees the beginning of "a rifle-shot stock- picking environment" in which stock performance varies widely not just by industry group but also among companies in the same industry, based on their individual performances and prospects...
...give a hoot about The Phantom Menace, yet somewhere deep inside, you suspect it won't be a fulfilling summer without a shot of Ewan McGregor. Witness here, then, the Scotsman's fine turn as Nick Leeson, the British futures trader whose fast-and-loose market executions brought down his employer, Barings, the prominent English bank. The film takes a sympathetic view of Leeson, which is fine; the problem is, it never offers a sense of the man behind the mania. What does come through is that Leeson ate a lot of candy during crises. Cadbury wrappers shouldn...
...Alda and Gelbart--both profit participants--charged that Fox has exploited M*A*S*H by selling reruns to its local stations and then to its own cable station FX at bargain-basement prices compared with what it charges non-Fox-owned stations. Fox apparently contends it charged fair-market prices. But one source maintains the loss in M*A*S*H money is "tens of millions of dollars," part of it owed to the duo. Gelbart resolved the matter (translation: financial settlement) last month, but Alda is scheduled to go to trial in August. According to his lawyer...