Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next Microsoft? "That's a crazy bet to make and yet everybody's making it," Kadlec says. "Yahoo is riding a mania for Internet stocks, just like the mania for biotech in 1991. These stocks have so much room to collapse." Indeed, in announcing only a 2-for-1 split Wednesday (effective in August), Yahoo might be signaling that it knows some bearish days are coming. Notes Kadlec: "A $200 stock price means Yahoo should split 4-for-1 to make it cheaper for small investors. Two-for-1 leaves the price too high for that at $100 -- they...
...girl trouble--most seriously Woodham, who was by all accounts "crushed," as a classmate told police, when Christina Menefee broke up with him. (Significantly, her father says Luke's mom was so overbearing she "drove them apart... If they went to get ice cream, she was there.") After the split, Luke testified at trial, "I didn't eat. I didn't sleep. It destroyed me." On D-day, Christina was apparently his primary target; she died of her wounds...
First, there needs to be a discussion of financial aid in general. The goal of financial aid is to allow students with the necessary strengths, but without the necessary funds, to have the opportunity of going to college. This split the collegiate population into three groups. The first split is the easiest to see. It is between those who are sufficiently well off to pay tuition and those who are not. The second split is a little murkier. It is between those who are below a certain income level and receive loans and a job and have the rest covered...
...decided to move much more speedily. Last October he sued to reopen an existing Windows 95 lawsuit. All went well -- at first. An irate Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in December ruled that Microsoft had violated a 1995 agreement with the government. In no uncertain terms, he told Microsoft to split off its browser from Windows...
...coached him to add all the other little things that became so critical to Jordan's greatness: the little moves on defense that came from repeating endless, boring drills; and the skills that allowed him to know when and how to pass off the double team or how to split it. The result was an almost perfect basketball player, a man with skills that few other players of comparable physical ability could match and that eventually would set him apart at the championship level. For that was when the professional game changed from a somewhat casual full-court game that...