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What it could do is shift the kinds of stocks and other investments that make the most sense. When interest rates are rising, the last thing you want to own is banks and brokerages, whose cost of money goes up and whose lending and other businesses tend to slow. You also want to avoid highly speculative (read Internet) companies with little or no earnings. Even steady growth stocks like food and beverages tend to lag as their earnings cheapen in an inflationary climate. Fixed-income investors should avoid longer-term securities because prices fall as rates rise...
...most interesting thing to happen came at the end, when the audience in the crowded theater booed. It's a boring film, and I can only echo what a patron at my showing said (once the booing stopped): "Now we know why it took only eight days to make." PEYTON HIGGISON Brunswick, Maine...
...online classified ads for cattle. "There were not very many farmers on the Internet back then," says Zaitz. "In fact, it was mildly embarrassing. I'd be at cattle sales, conferences and dairy shows, and people would come up to me and say, 'Hey, Ben, how's that Internet thing going?' and they'd slap me on the back with a smirk...
Andre Agassi isn't the only thing in tennis that's on the upswing. So is the game, and that's good news for racquet makers such as Wilson, Prince and Head, the company that makes Agassi's. With golf muscling in on the leisure market, racquet sales have been in a decade-long decline. This year sales could climb 5%, which is in some measure attributable to the ability of a Swedish turnaround artist to persuade the Austrian government's tobacco monopoly to sell him a sporting-goods company created by an American entrepreneur...
...this one from Officer Linda Griffith: "He allows me to walk [amid] the danger./ He lets me extend help to a stranger./ My flesh crawls and I miss him when he's not under my wing./ I don't let people see or touch him, it's a private thing./ So you should be grateful and understand what I've done./ If and when I let you touch the butt...