Word: shakeout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think UPS doesn?t know that. At a time when the Great Dot-Com Shakeout has seemingly begun, casting doubt on money-losing e-tailers like Amazon.com, the Street still knows that somebody?s going to get rich selling stuff online. Which makes a safe bet like UPS ?- the guys who deliver it to you ?- doubly attractive. "They?re obviously cashing in on the Internet craze," Kadlec says. "They?ve waited 92 years, and they have no desperate need for the cash. This is just too good an opportunity to pass up." Nobody deserves a little taste of Internet riches...
...They're just going to behave differently as this industry, like so many before it, enters the next phase of development. That phase will include the creation of tons of stock as new IPOs flood the market in search of easy money (yours). And it will include the inevitable shakeout as investors sort out the jewels from the junk. The only question is, How fast will all this happen...
...reference to the growing legion of e-traders who are sucking money from money managers at a rate that is starting to test their nerves. Sure, the $5.9 trillion fund industry is still chugging along quite nicely. But after a decade of explosive growth, it seems poised for a shakeout, as too many stock funds (about 3,500 at last count) scramble for a slowing money supply...
...Palo Alto minute for a viable, affordable high-speed link to our home. But which pipe will we choose? Cable? Telephone? Wireless? Satellite? No one knows for sure, and Microsoft and AOL--both of whose businesses depend on the answer--are at pains to appear neutral in the coming shakeout. "We're pipe agnostic," says Microsoft vice president Brad Chase. Which actually means they have to be ready to pray at all the altars. That's why Microsoft and AOL were vying to be best man at the wedding of AT&T and cable giant MediaOne; they both wanted...
...parks on the ground and more on the way, industry analysts are issuing dire warnings: "Orlando is now a zero-sum game," says Curt Alexander, an analyst with Media Group Research. "There will be bloodletting of biblical proportions." The theme-park glut promises bargains for consumers but a brutal shakeout that could pound the earnings of park owners Disney, Seagram (Universal) and Anheuser-Busch (Busch Gardens, Sea World...