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After the NASDAQ dropped 5.6% on Monday, wounded highflyers regained their strength for the umpteenth time. "Tech and Internet enthusiasts are hard to keep down," observes Byron Wien, analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. So AOL, which went from $167 to $116 in a blink, was quickly back at $146. Amazon.com poster child for Internet speculation, shot from $184 to $159 to--gads!--$210. With lightning speed the reversal was reversed, and what had been shaping up as a seismic shift in the market turned out to be just a sneeze...
...Boxing must be grateful that college basketball's broken nose has stolen the spotlight from its own umpteenth "black eye." These allegations come on the heels of a ruling by a United States District judge striking down as racially biased the NCAA's Proposition 48, which requires certain minimum test scores (qualified by grade point average) in order for freshmen to be eligible for college athletics...
Boxing must be grateful that college basketball's broken nose has stolen the spotlight from its own umpteenth "black eye." These allegations come on the heels of a ruling by a United States District Judge striking down as racially biased the NCAA'S Proposition 48, which requires certain minimum test scores (qualified by grade point average) in order for freshmen to be eligible for college athletics...
...tournament pool for the umpteenth year in a row. I've never won, but I have a feeling this will be my year...
...remain robust, and the economy should turn in a solid year of 2.5% to 3.5% growth, Sinai notes. As we've been hearing (but not seeing) for much of the '90s, sustained growth leads to rising wages, which lead to higher prices and, ultimately, higher interest rates. For the umpteenth time, bond traders say we have reached the point at which all that nastiness commences. But they're really just reading tea leaves, projecting what is famously difficult to project. For inflation to take off, Japan and the rest of Asia will have to wake from a deep sleep before...