Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...affordably. In early 1995, various Fools, as the participants call themselves, began posting news about the first Zips to hit the market. They soon put their money where their modems were and reaped the rewards. Many of the earliest posters on the Iomega board have seen their initial investment rise more than...
...comments about a fast-growing chain of rain forest-themed restaurants--is a cyber lovefest. Investors delight in the restaurants' lifelike robot birds and monkeys, gleefully report on the long lines to get in, and cheer on the company's latest expansion plans. With the stock's meteoric rise--up some 700% since its IPO last year--postings often lapse into euphoria: "I love this company"; "I love every dollar I have thrown into it"; and the group's oft-repeated rallying cry, "Let it RAIN...
Similarly, a commercially valuable animal--a champion bull or a prize hog, for example--could keep producing sperm indefinitely, even after death, using lesser specimens as surrogate spermmakers. Stem cells also give rise to new stem cells, which can then be harvested and frozen in turn. As a result, says Pennsylvania veterinary physiologist Ralph Brinster, a co-author of both studies, "we can make any individual male biologically immortal...
...coming of age of the baby boomers and a wave of campus construction, the economic "return" from a college degree began to fall; economists nodded their heads with satisfaction at this proof of the law of supply and demand at work. Then in the '80s the return began to rise dramatically because the high-tech economy put more and more value on the degree. Today college graduates earn double what high school graduates earn, or more...
ARIEL SHARON Phoenix-like, hawkish ex-general is likely to rise again, just behind Bibi's throne...