Word: picker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book or two a year. (His latest: An Affair of State, a scathing account of President Bill Clinton's impeachment woes; and the less reader-friendly The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory.) "Dick is sort of a legendary intellect," says law-school colleague Randal Picker. "He is one of the great legal minds of the 20th century...
...superstar stock picker, Buffett has taken Berkshire's shareholders for an amazing ride, largely on the backs of stocks like Gillette, Coca-Cola and Disney. If you had put $10,000 in Berkshire when Buffett bought control in 1965, it would be worth $51 million today--literally 100 times the gain of the Standard & Poor's 500. Buffett's investment success has long overwhelmed Berkshire's other side, which owns and operates companies in aviation, furniture, insurance and fast food. Profits from those businesses traditionally haven't helped in evaluating Berkshire because investment gains have meant so much more...
...Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif.--the Main Street of venture capitalism.) But what has set Wetherell and CMGI apart has been his phenomenal success. His early investments in Lycos, Booklink, GeoCities, Critical Path and a slew of other Internet companies have established Wetherell as an uncanny picker of soon-to-be-ripe Internet fruit...
...humanist on me. You know what I'm talking about: examples of idiocy and ridiculousness that range from the incipient nose-picker in section to the kiddie porn dealer in Mathews (I know...
...take a flyer on a stock in an industry to which you're already heavily exposed, take the cash from your hunch pool. Meanwhile, make sure that your other 401(k) and any additional retirement accounts are invested in diversified stock funds or, if you're a stock picker, spread among other industries. There's nothing wrong with having confidence in your employer. But even Bill Gates sells Microsoft shares regularly to diversify...