Word: waited
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...cream-stationery strategy--dashing off notes to potential supporters in key states. Shortly after New Hampshire house speaker Donna Sytek was quoted in a newspaper article as saying she hadn't chosen a candidate to support, a handwritten letter arrived from the Texas Governor: "I hope good people can wait." The note worked: Sytek is waiting--even though Dole has asked her to come aboard. Sytek says she won't make up her mind until she meets Bush in person. Letter writing runs in the family. New Hampshire G.O.P. activist Mike Dagostino recently heard from the Governor's father...
...here it is, yet another 1,000-plus pages, and in the end it was worth the wait. Kissinger again displays an intellectual ambition, provocativeness and mix of sweep and detail that make other memoirs seem pale. Of course that doesn't mean Years of Renewal (Simon & Schuster; $35) is a relaxing beach read. The narratives and character sketches (including those of Nixon and Ford, excerpted in this issue) are often vivid delights, but they are leavened by meticulous trudges through old battlegrounds (some repetitive of previous volumes) that make up in defensiveness what they lack in concision. To paraphrase...
Wall Street couldn't wait for Lauren to take his company public, but at some level he must resent it. Since Polo/RL's initial public stock offering in June 1997, he has learned the hard way that the only trend that matters on the Street is the direction your earnings are going. And Polo's haven't been going in the preferred direction. Polo's net income has been down two of the past three quarters, and this year earnings growth is projected at an anemic 4.2%, well below 1998's sizzling 35%. The stock has had its price taken...
...loyal viewers of PBS's Antiques Roadshow, spring cleaning will just have to wait. Really, what's a little clutter when that rickety sideboard or dusty cup-and-saucer set might be your ticket to paradise...
...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...