Word: riding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ride looks as though it's over. Instead of coining money, companies that have come to market lately have discovered that the easy pickings are gone. An increasing number of new issues have fallen at the opening bell, and the market won't let them get up. With high-tech powerhouses such as Motorola and Hewlett-Packard reporting earnings problems, smaller companies of all sorts have had to delay long-planned sales. "This is no market for people with ulcers," says Steven Samblis, who heads an investment firm in Longwood, Florida...
...from $13 per share to $32.25 when it began trading in April and soon hit a high of $43. Last Friday, however, Yahoo! was searching for the bottom, at $17.50. "The IPOs that came with the most sizzle, like the Internet search engines, have gone on a roller-coaster ride," notes Rodney Goldstein, managing partner of Frontenac, a Chicago-based venture-capital firm...
...when most Olympic cyclists have long since retired, he's competing in his first Olympics. He has kept up a grueling 250-mile to 500-mile-per-week training schedule while working 35 hours a week disposing of contaminants. He does a little of both work and training by riding 20 miles to his office each day. His wife Carol Ann, a racer herself, and some friends often meet up with him after work for a three- to four-hour training ride in the hills. On weekends he spends six or seven hours a day on the bike...
...says, "If the '70s and '80s were the era of the What if? movie, then the '90s are the era of the What the heck! movie. We say, 'Hey, this is so beyond our logical grasp, so out of this world, that we're just going along for the ride...
Emmerich, 40, the conductor of ID4's wild ride, is a can-do scholar of Hollywood moviemaking; he has built a reputation for efficient melodramas on modest budgets. (For all its locations and effects and the mandatory cast of thousands, ID4 reportedly cost a thrifty $71 million.) Emmerich first fell under the spell of science fiction as a boy watching U.S. films as well as local sci-fi TV shows in his native Germany. "For me," he says, "going on a science-fiction movie set is like visiting toyland. You see, my brother trashed all my toys when...