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...current price-earnings ratio. If the P/E is lower, the stock may be attractive. A lot of tech stocks will grow earnings 35% a year in coming years but have P/Es way above that. Cisco, for example, trades at 148 times trailing earnings even after the stock has sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NASDAQ: What A Drag! | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...this point, Lehrer had apparently exhausted every two-minute foreign policy question, so he moved on to domestic issues. And Gore, who had been almost visibly holding back through the first 45 minutes, finally sunk his teeth into the exchange, effectively grilling Bush on failed attempts to pass hate crimes legislation in Texas and managing to paint himself as an ally of both Cheney and Lieberman on the issue of gay marriage. On gun control, the differences were less stark: Gore favoring licensing but vowing to keep his hands off "hunters? and sportsmen?s rifles." Bush held up pretty well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Round 2: In Which Bush and Gore Sit Down for a Nice, Civilized Chat | 10/12/2000 | See Source »

...around, she seemed poised to dropkick the rest of the featherweights into oblivion but even she couldn't have prepared herself for the drama on vault-with it set two inches too low, Khorkina crashed onto her knees. The tears began to flow and the face sunk even more when she fell off the uneven bars during her signature move; the diva had melted into desperation. Every ounce of her haughty energy, her I-kiss-you-than-I-kill-you demeanor, had evaporated with two falls...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: In The Know | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

Feeley-Brooks has been in front of classrooms for 33 years. Before the merger, she says, morale at Maynard sunk as students' performance lagged and the school was overlooked for new initiatives...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Merged | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

...moved, the crowd was reminded how big she is for gymnast. At 164 cm., she looks as almost as tall as the beam is long. After the beam, Svetlana deflated and turned back into a too-skinny girl whose leotard was too short in the arms. She sunk into a chair sulking from sidelines until she got word that there had been a problem with the vault. For the first half of the competition, the vault had been set 5 cm. too low. For a gymnast, especially a tall one, this is the equivalent of removing a step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tatters and Tears | 9/26/2000 | See Source »

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