Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They have clashed occasionally. Both ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, after Gore had moved to the Senate, and Gephardt was an opponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement Clinton signed...
...MARQUEZ bought the flagging magazine and joined its reporting staff. Undercover assignments are out of the question, but the author, who worked at a newspaper before becoming a novelist, insists on doing his own legwork and recently covered peace talks between the government and rebels. "Journalism is the only trade I like," he told the New York Times. Easy for him to say. World leaders take his calls, and he already has a book deal...
...borrowing money, do so. If not, the risk is that rates keep moving up, in which case stocks and bonds are vulnerable and your loan gets even more expensive. Rising rates smack growth stocks the hardest. So one hedge is to shift from stocks that typically trade at 30 to 70 times earnings (many tech stocks) to value stocks trading at far lower multiples. Those include small companies and dividend payers like utilities and real estate investment trusts. Then wait out the fever...
...recent fashion trade bazaar in Manhattan, designer Shoshanna Lonstein was giving the hard sell to a group of potential clients. Sporting one of her new fall designs--a strapless wool tube dress--she looked herself up and down, fidgeted with the top of her dress and began, "I've made my clothes to allow for a woman's body, if you have one." Said a buyer from Miami, giggling: "Like you certainly do!" While the crowd burst out laughing, someone in the back whispered, "Hey, isn't she the one that used to go with Jerry Seinfeld?" The answer...
...fashion world, at least, seems to be taking her on her own terms. Buyers at the trade show were snapping up her fall line--though a few were disappointed there were no matching winter-weather thongs. "The very thing that captivated Seinfeld is captivating everyone else," says Kate White, Cosmo's editor in chief. "He fell for her because of her beauty and charisma, and so have we." Now the question is whether it's a spring fling--or a love built to last...