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...investor, I want a smattering of both old and new U.S. tech stocks, even if the prices of some Net stocks are overinflated to adolescent values. While it may seem counterintuitive to think of Intel as old tech, the market values hardware makers by a much more stringent standard than the newer Net businesses. Even though Intel and Seagate, the largest maker of personal-computer disk drives, signaled that sales are extremely robust, they are still in an industry that will be lucky to grow 20% in 1999. Yahoo, by contrast, is in a business that seems to double every...
...break apart atoms. Might not some of the test-tube-rearranged DNA molecules impart to their host cells disease-causing capacities that, like nuclear weapons, are capable of seriously disrupting human civilization? Soon there were cries from both scientists and nonscientists that such research might best be ruled by stringent regulations--if not laws...
...felt it was inappropriate to sign an agreement with less-stringent guidelines than we currently have in place," said Colin D. Riley, a spokesperson for Boston University (B.U.). Riley said B.U. is a member of the coalition and supports its work, but decided not to sign the plan...
...course, Chicago's prosecutors will probably argue that gun makers have contorted both law and morality. They will say that manufacturers have attempted to subvert stringent Chicago gun laws by flooding the markets in states with more lenient statutes such as Florida and Texas. Many economists who have studied gun sales believe that firearms entering those states are then taken to more heavily restricted areas such as Chicago...
Ferazani says that the large number of spills in recent weeks is an anomaly for Harvard since the University follows very stringent safety guidelines...