Word: runup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Meier. And just last week Moscow set alarm bells ringing in NATO countries with a massive military exercise ?- including provocative bomber flights into Western airspace ?- designed to simulate repelling an attack from the West. "And the anti-NATO card will be played by most Russian political parties in the runup to December?s parliamentary elections and even in next year?s presidential poll," says Meier. So Russia plans to do more in Kosovo than simply keep the peace; it plans to prove a point...
...died this year -- largely because of a virulent industry ad campaign that attacked the "tax-and-spend" $1.10 increase -- they ought to be a little peeved that this time the taxes are coming from their own side. Of course that hasn't stopped Philip Morris stock from its steady runup -- in a smoker's blood, nicotine generally wins out over outrage...
When all is said and done, there may have been more losers than winners in last week's bizarre "rally" in the shares of the cancer-drug firm EntreMed. The stock began the week at $12 and ended at $33 1/4, a tidy 177% runup. But in the process, the company's 12 million shares outstanding changed hands an average of four times each--at prices up to $85. Sure, anyone who bought the stock more than a week ago received a windfall. But, in theory, there are three times as many people who got creamed. Cancer could well...
...sold stocks in order to record gains that would be taxed at the new low rate. In '81, the S&P 500 plunged 15% in six weeks. Later the markets took off as investors sought low-tax opportunities. The '78 sell-off paved the way for a two-year runup that enabled the S&P 500 to snap out of a 14-year funk. The '81 sell-off set the stage for the mother of all bull markets...
...course, this proposal is a bald faced grab for arm votes in the runup to the November election, but that's old news. Much more frightening is that, in a single stroke, Bush has wantonly threatened the stability of the European Community (E.C.) and has seriously undermined the GATT mission of multilateral trade liberalization...