Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Investors trip up in dozens of silly ways. They act on stock tips from their nitwit in-laws, send money to brokers they've never met, check their mutual-fund balances too often and lose patience too soon. But my guess is that this year's most popular gaffe will be the way investors categorize in their mind the past few years of robust U.S. stock gains. Some lost souls will view the spoils as perfectly normal and expect more of the same. God bless them. But even those with a sense of history may regard the period as merely...
...even though we don't know how long this will last, the best course may be simply to stay in stocks, particularly if you have 15 or more years until retirement. Consistently trying to time the market's ups and downs is one of the silly ways that investors trip...
...kind of car that might inspire another Cheech and Chong road trip. From its groovy arched roof and fenders to a funky blue speedometer, the new Beetle--introduced last week at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit--is a motorized monument to Flower Power nostalgia. All that's missing is a Day-Glo paint job and a roach clip in the ashtray. But the Beetle will be a much trickier resurrection than bell-bottoms now that boomers seem partial to cars and trucks big enough to fit a Bug in the back...
...Students Attacked in Guatemala (Reuters) A school trip to Central America turned horribly wrong for sixteen American college students...
...great introduction to House life," said Scott B. Lovich '99, who participated in the trip last year...