Word: walls
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...Little took sophomore reliever JohnFraney's first pitch in the sixth inning over theleft-center field wall for a 1-1 tie and struckback again in the seventh, this time off juniorMike Madden...
...economy--Will they crash and burn? Or soar even higher?--CMGI is a good place to start. It is a company very much in the middle of the clash between the old and new market models, and between old and new media, that is occurring all over Wall Street. To smitten Internet investors today, profits don't matter; it's the new economic order of the future that counts. So buying a company's stock on the basis of profits is irrelevant. These investors look only to the next harvest of CMGI's hot IPOs, which is why they have...
...years that I've spent chronicling Wall Street, and the foibles and traits of characters like McColl, I've learned a lot about how fortunes are made. For McColl, a no-nonsense work ethic and drop-dead loyalty to trusted managers have transformed him from small-town banker to first-class sensation. Sandy Weill, co-CEO of Citigroup, earned riches by seizing out-of-favor companies when, he says, they "look like a disaster to someone else but like an opportunity...
...like McColl and moguls like Weill operate in rarefied circles. But much of what they practice can apply to everyday investors and business people. In my book, Masters of the Universe: Winning Strategies of America's Greatest Deal Makers (HarperCollins), I've tried to capture key philosophies of 10 Wall Street superstars who have a collective net worth of $12 billion. They must know something, right...
PAIN-KILLER PROBLEM The superaspirin Celebrex, touted as a potent but easy-on-the-stomach pain-killer for arthritis, may be linked to 10 deaths and 11 cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhages, according to the Wall Street Journal. What's more, five of the deaths may have been due to gastrointestinal bleeding. Monsanto, the drug's manufacturer, says there's no proof that Celebrex actually caused any deaths. Plenty of folks use the drug: 2.5 million prescriptions have been written since it was introduced in January...