Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graduates of the clubs were unhappy with the shift, especially when considering their liability for accidents involving alcohol...
What it could do is shift the kinds of stocks and other investments that make the most sense. When interest rates are rising, the last thing you want to own is banks and brokerages, whose cost of money goes up and whose lending and other businesses tend to slow. You also want to avoid highly speculative (read Internet) companies with little or no earnings. Even steady growth stocks like food and beverages tend to lag as their earnings cheapen in an inflationary climate. Fixed-income investors should avoid longer-term securities because prices fall as rates rise...
...effect," he says, "Chemdex is turning around to the chemical producers, and it is saying, 'Congratulations! This is your lucky day. You just won the lottery. Here's a check for $4 billion.' These guys have not seen their costs structure improved like this ever. It's a tectonic shift...
...liberal shift, it is the status quo," McGuire says...
...sure how much this school can do to shift to the left," he says...