Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind, creating brief price differentials that clients spot and pounce on. Customers who correctly predict the direction of a stock can reap $250 (less commissions) for each quarter-point gain on a 1,000-share bet. But "riding a wave" is not so easy: a stock can blip upward, enticing a small trader to buy it, and then come tumbling down. "Oh my God!" cries a fortysomething beautician as she loses $250 in a split-second transaction involving Genzyme, a biotechnology firm. "This has been the longest trade of my life...
...international level, the press is avid: unlike the feckless Brits and the sulky Grimaldis, this pair are good-news royals, appealing, admirable and with the allure of mystery. Tabloids and weeklies have become fascinated by the young woman with the Mona Lisa smile and habit of looking upward from downcast eyes -- not unlike the young Lady Di. At home, Masakomania dominates the thriving women's magazine business, although Owada has given no interviews and precious few photo opportunities...
Chung's greatest virtue is her high Q rating, the annual measure of celebrities' celebrity and popularity. Her number may be skewed upward, however, by her singular recognizability: she is the only Asian-American TV star. While Chung is a decent newsreader, and CBS staff munchkins like her let's-order-a-pizza! perkiness, peers and former colleagues tend to be ungenerous. "Call Connie, ask what really interests her," says a fellow network anchor. "You'll get a blank screen." (I did. "I wish I could tell you," she replied. "What is a Connie Chung story? I'm hard...
Rising costs--particularly in the cost of outside labs and X-rays--has placed upward pressure on the health fee all students are required to pay UHS. Student fees rose 14.8 percent in 1988-89, 11.0 percent in 1989-90 and 8.0 percent...
Although expecting a future upward trend in rents, Demong said rents for Square property have been steady for the past few years...