Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas season fast approaches, dot.coms flush with cash from their stock-market offerings, are pumping money into old media and stretching the creative limits of Madison Avenue. "If you don't gain market share now, you're never going to get it," says analyst Henry Blodgett of Merrill Lynch. By the end of this year, e-commerce companies will shell out $2.5 billion on traditional advertising, according to PaineWebber. That may be just a fraction of the $80 billion U.S. ad market, but it's four times what Net firms spent in 1998. For the moment, dot.coms are actually spending...
...empire owns a vast collection of radio stations and billboards. Though most of the old media won't trade ads outright with the dot.coms--the kind of bartering that takes place all the time in cyberspace--they will use the slots as currency. Rather than pay with stock or cash, CBS has swapped nearly a billion dollars in ads and promotional opportunities for sizable equity stakes in start-ups like MarketWatch.com SportsLine.com and Jobs.com...
...Thursday, Cherry, who is also mayor, doubled her fists and vowed that if anyone tried to make her resign her city post, "I'll give 'em some knuckle puddin'." She had a request for the council. Now that she has lost her job and her $4 million in bank stock is worthless, she would like a permit to open a bakery...
What with lingering questions about Social Security and the demise of the traditional pension, Americans have embraced stocks as never before. The number of individuals owning stocks or stock funds has swollen to 78 million, up from 42 million in 1983. Our 401(k) accounts are bulging, and there is encouraging evidence that the masses are behaving smartly--by diversifying and holding for long periods...
...smug. Consider that more than half the population is being left out, and if the stock market is really our ticket to retirement bliss, that must change. Individual Social Security accounts that let taxpayers direct part of their payments into stocks would be a start...