Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ratify it too, but the Senate is the key. If it falters, some of the Europeans could drift away. And while the White House expects to win the two-thirds vote it needs in the Senate, it no longer believes rounding up 67 votes will be a simple matter...
...Russian Federation is part of that community too. The idea that an enlarging NATO can contribute to Russia's own long-term security--which the alliance leaders firmly believe--is, to put it mildly, not self-evident, certainly not to the Russians (or, for that matter, to critics of enlargement in the U.S.). Yet as enlargement has moved forward, NATO and Russia have developed an increasingly close relationship. In May, at a landmark meeting in Paris, the leaders of the alliance and President Boris Yeltsin signed the NATO-Russia Founding Act. It lays the basis for a solid, growing partnership...
...never got a chance at the Netscape IPO? Of course not: hot stock offerings are reserved for big-bucks investors. Couldn't make sense of Intel's latest gibberish on chip demand next quarter? Sure you couldn't: important details get explained in exclusive conference calls. No matter how small investors try to level the field, it always ends up tilted. Get ready for another uphill climb. In the coming weeks, companies will begin reporting second-quarter results, and some stocks will react in ways that defy logic. Why? They are being moved by a relatively new Wall Street device...
...about a minute. Along came the whisper number, and now "the official Wall Street estimates aren't worth the paper and ink used to produce them," asserts Chip Morris, manager of the T. Rowe Price Science and Technology fund. The official estimates are systematically understated. The number that matters is the one analysts call in to their best clients as the earnings date draws near. Last April, Intel reported a doubling in earnings and beat the printed estimates by 6%. The stock fell because the whisper number was higher. Stinks, doesn't it? And don't expect...
...fateful 1886 Supreme Court decision, corporations are persons, entitled like anyone else to freedom of speech, even when they use it to promote the widespread consumption of a poisonous substance. They are not, however, persons who can be lethally injected or attached to a chain gang, no matter how wicked their crimes. In 1996, for example, Rockwell International was found guilty of causing an explosion that killed two company scientists. Pfizer manufactured a defective heart valve that caused 360 deaths worldwide. In all these cases, hefty fines were levied and stern statements were made, but no executive or plant manager...