Word: red-hot
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...started during Greenspan's latest congressional testimony. At first he repeated his usual concern that the economy is expanding too fast. And for the past half-year, it has indeed grown at a red-hot 6% annual rate, double its presumed speed limit and thus an inflation risk as demand for both goods and labor threatens to outpace supply...
...took an opportunistic offense and the red-hot goaltending of freshman Derek Gustafson to secure St. Lawrence a 4-2 win. Gustafson, who boasted a 2.02 goals against average and a .941 save percentage entering the contest, made 32 saves in the triumph...
...initiate Internet-only mutuals. And judging by a scan of the holdings of the largest funds, they spent more time trying to imitate the old-line Standard & Poor's 500 index than mimic the hot stocks that individuals have chased successfully. Now they have to scramble to own these red-hot stocks and dump the laggards if they are to keep up with the new benchmark to beat: the NASDAQ 100, which is much more overweighted with dotcom names...
...this the face of 21st century activism? The '60s-era left was marginalized by two giddily capitalist decades of leveraged buyouts, Web IPOs and rising tides that lifted the biggest ships. That may have changed last Tuesday, when masked youths started smashing windows in Seattle. In one red-hot CNN Minute, the eclectic concerns of a planetful of protesters--environmentalism, Tibet, child labor, human rights--crystallized right where most of them didn't want to be: beneath the anarchist banner...
What doesn't make sense is that one of Gore's senior advisers, top-tier lobbyist Peter Knight, is a hired gun for pharmaceuticals giant Schering-Plough, which is in a red-hot battle to stretch out its patent for the best-selling allergy medication Claritin beyond 2002. The New Jersey-based company paid Knight's firm $100,000 in the first half of this year alone...