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Word: steeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyway. Sure, the indexes are bloated. Anybody can see that. But don't blame the index funds. It's part of a mania that has bloated the entire market. There's good reason to be worried about a steep correction that would hit all stocks. So stick your money in a mattress if you're worried. But if you are committed to owning stocks for the long haul, indexing still makes sense. For one thing, there is scant evidence that major indexes fall harder than most stock funds. In 1987, the year of the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STOP BAD-MOUTHING THE INDEX FUNDS! | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...screaming toward the planet at 16,600 m.p.h., a speed that caused it to experience deceleration forces nearly 20 times as great as than Earth's gravity. In order to survive, the spaceship had to approach the planet at an angle of about 14.2[degrees]. "Go in too steep and you could crash and burn," says Pathfinder project scientist Matthew Golombek. "Go in too shallow and you skip back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNCOVERING THE SECRETS OF MARS | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

McDonald's store owners have always paid a steep price for access to burger riches: they can operate no other businesses, they have no exclusive territories, and they generally take orders from headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill. Franchisees own nothing other than a 20-year agreement, renewable at the company's option, to equip and run a restaurant in return for 12.5% off the top in royalty and rent. (The rates can be higher for some sites.) They spend a minimum of 4% of sales for marketing. Last year McDonald's got $1.8 billion from its U.S. franchisees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCDONALD'S: FALLEN ARCHES | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

Motor homes, on the other hand, start at about $40,000 with basic home furnishings and rise majestically to $750,000. That's a little steep for a three-week holiday, but rolling palaces are rentable at $100 or so a day, the average charged by Cruise America, the country's largest rental outfit. Rented or purchased, RVs represent a way for families to keep travel, accommodation and food costs within a defined budget. More important, RVers can go where they want to, when they want to--no motels, no airports, no planning. And life on the road lends itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RV HAVING FUN YET? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...which one could point out that surveys show that the percentage of smokers among college graduates is half that of people who didn't finish high school. In other words, reaching the President's goals on education would mean a steep reduction in the number of Americans who smoke, and would therefore be financially damaging to the states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMOKE GETS IN THEIR EYES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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