Word: portfolio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added, however, that in a climate like last year's relative performance was "determined almost entirely by the amount of domestic stocks in the portfolio...
...performance also fell 0.4 percent short of HMC's internal benchmark, the Policy Portfolio, which it uses to determine the success of its year...
...code name is Excelsior, and the preliminary plan alone fills a portfolio the size of a breadbox. If all goes according to plan, on Nov. 4, 1999, the Governor of Minnesota will stand on a platform in Duluth and pull a golden lanyard, opening the gates of the Superior Diversion Canal, a concrete waterway the size of the Suez. Water from Lake Superior will flood into the canal at a rate of 50 billion gal. per hour and go south...
Forests, however, are just one item in Siberia's bulging portfolio of natural resources. Soviet exploitation managed to poison and degrade 35,000 sq. mi. of the vast republic, but that only scratched the surface of its mineral wealth. Bob Logan, an economist at the University of Alaska, has made trips to Yakutia to study the region's economic prospects, which he describes as "staggering." As much as 20% of the territory is known to have oil and gas deposits that could make it the Saudi Arabia of the north. The area is one of the world's leading sources...
...sell, not just yet. Trading of 5 million shares in the long-awaited initial public offering of the upstart Netscape Communications Corp. was supposed to begin last Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., when the NASDAQ whistle blew. But here it was 90 minutes later, and the institutions and portfolio managers who had received huge blocks of shares still hadn't sold any of their stock. Investors were bidding up the price so fast that the ground floor had yet to be set. What the investment banks had valued a few weeks ago at a modest $14 was soaring...