Word: theses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The guru is a handsome, 40-year-old Highlander named Alasdair MacRae, widely regarded as the most dangerous of all "dangerous men"--the insider's term for virtuoso sheepdog handlers. The son of a tenant farmer, MacRae is a newfangled sort of celebrity. In centuries past, those who handled sheepdogs...
Right now there are more large-cap companies outside the index than at any other time in history, because of investors' massive reweighting toward technology companies. Among those we consider potential admittees are JDS Uniphase, a $42 billion fiber optics company; online retailing colossus Amazon, with $36 billion in market...
Who might get the gate when these newbies claim S&P seats? Such well-known but decidedly no-tech companies as shoemaker Reebok; Russell, the apparel company; and car-part king Pep Boys.
But remember, if you decide to play, that we rarely know when the announcements will be made--these are closely guarded knightings--and the move, while swift on the upside, can be just as death-defying the day after admission. Yahoo, which traded millions upon millions of shares at $348...
I had heard horror stories about how long it would take to install the cable modem. These turned out to be untrue. Since I already had a TV-cable outlet in my home office, it took the cable guy half an hour to plug in the modem, drop an Ethernet...