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That's what golf pros were teaching back in the 1950s and '60s. The classic swing--big and full, finishing in a perfect "reverse C." Unfortunately, that same classic swing can put your average 50-year-old in the hospital. Top tour players like Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Kite and Fuzzy Zoeller, to name a few, have at one time or another each been sidelined with career-threatening back injuries. Today even younger players like Fred Couples, Peter Jacobsen and Tiger Woods have closeted that backbreaking motion, along with their steel-shafted drivers, in favor of the gentle power...
...fence. They recognize that the recent Internet-stock drop could be just another fake-out--"an intrusion of rational thinking," says one--like the dips in January and last autumn. In both cases, patience and faith were rewarded when those stocks roared back from sharp declines. But the pros aren't exactly backing up the truck to get their fill. It's more of a tiptoe laced with caveats...
...gains can be traced to relatively few stocks--has been tailor-made for the e-trade crowd, who pile into favored stocks at light-speed. It's been a hot-money, risky environment, and these investors have apparently lost respect for the traditional, research-oriented investing that the pros have to offer...
...PROS --Inviting an Elvis impersonator to their Las Vegas wedding shows they are comfortable with farce --He starred in a TV series called Dangerous Women; she starred in a TV show called Treacherous Beauties --She's the daughter of the Princess of Yugoslavia; he was King Tal in Beastmaster...
...about March 4, Fritz said he invited representatives from the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) to present the pros-and-cons of their union...