Word: tulip
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...learned to trust her concrete advice?for instance, when she urged him to make his designs "less dressy" even though he had been thriving with highly feminine silhouettes like the tulip skirt. She wanted "easier pieces," he says. "I thought it was boring, but I kept trying, and then finally I got it, and she said, 'You got it, and it's great!' So she taught me to be a bit more accessible...
...Deep breath, America: Paula Abdul has broken her nose by (stay with us) falling to avoid stepping on her Chihuahua, Tulip. She still appeared on the American Idol finale, chipped cartilage and all. On the TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO, Abdul's supportive co-host Simon Cowell inquired solicitously, "How's the dog?" SCORE...
...site of a nearby battle, Louis XIII was first produced in 1874 by Paul-Emile Rémy Martin, the founder's great-great grandson. Standing in a Domaine du Grollet cellar, dank with the heady aroma of the tierçons and the cognac, I hold a tulip glass of Louis XIII and prepare myself for this rare tasting opportunity. "Don't merely take a first sip," Géré tells me. "Instead, try to crush that first drop on your teeth." So how does century-old cognac taste? Well, like the 20th century itself: complex. Even...
Neither could Dutch tulip-bulb speculators in the mid-1600s nor American day traders in the dotcom boom of the late 1990s nor even Chinese investors in the early 2000s. The history of investing demonstrates that there is no faith stronger than that of newbies plunging into a molten market. And that certainly describes China today. Emboldened by last year's 130% rise in the Shanghai Composite Index--which made Shanghai one of the best-performing exchanges in the world--first-time punters like Du have been storming into Chinese stocks, ending the market's five-year slump...
Beijing may have good reason to apply the brakes. In frothy markets, investors tend to form unrealistic expectations. They buy into an ill-founded theme, whether it's about future demand for tulip bulbs or, in this case, the notion that China's economic growth is boundless. David Webb, an independent investor based in Hong Kong, says that this is what's happening with many China stocks. "Once you get past the hubbub, the fundamentals behind these prices just aren't there," he notes...