Word: move
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't solve the problem,...but it is at least a move in the right direction," Doherty says...
...other analysts trade stock prices like sports scores, bragging loudly about their stocks from their desks. Shemmer has more than $11,000 of his own money invested in the market, mostly in risky, especially volatile "penny stocks" that can be bought in huge quantities. "Make your fucking move!" he shouts at one dawdling stock. But he's proud of a company called Zamba, which started out in the morning at $5 a share. It's up to $5.50 by the time he settles down at his desk. "Look at Zamba! I'm making a slow killing!" Shemmer shouts. The other...
...sterling resume is as important as a generous salary. Analysts just out of college sign up for two-year contracts, and it's understood that most will move on after the contract is up. After that, there are four main routes: An analyst can stay in investment banking and seek a promotion, go to a venture capital firm, to private industry, or to business school. Industry is the most popular choice, especially with 25-year-old Internet millionaires cropping up everywhere--some analysts even leave early for Silicon Valley. And more and more graduates are skipping finance altogether to found...
...will it work? The troubles with Boston Market may have proved that people simply don't want wholesome fast food. However, McDonald's has been on the move under new CEO Jack Greenberg, aquiring Tex-Mex and pizza chains in the past year. And it's not taking too much of a risk - if it can't make the 751 Boston Market franchises (which it snatched at a bargain basement price of $131 million) solvent again, it can easily convert some or all of them into McDonald's or other eateries for significantly less than the cost of building...
...accept peaceful protests as integral aspects of its existence. He's fervently opposed to trade barriers, but he also wants to ensure a degree of job protection for American workers. He wants to keep U.S. policy toward sea turtles intact throughout the world, but balks when European countries move to protect their own policies banning the importation of genetically engineered food...