Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after last week's rout, dot.com stocks are 40% to 60% off their peaks, and investors are finding there is no safety net in Netland. For those with faith and a long investment horizon, discounted prices today are compelling. That's why the bloodbath didn't turn into a bigger catastrophe. Early last Thursday, Net stocks were in free fall and touching their lowest levels of the year. Enough investors suddenly viewed them as bargains so that prices turned...
...made businesslike calculations of risk and reward. He was afraid rival dealers might try to rob him of his drugs or the wad of cash in his wallet. So he carried a 9-mm handgun. "Everybody had a gun," he says, "for defense." But now he has a bigger fear: if he gets caught with a weapon while committing a crime in his hometown of Richmond, Va., he faces at least five years without parole in a distant federal prison. That's why Edward, 25, doesn't pack a pistol anymore...
...says Jordan Brown, 13, of Bakersfield, Calif., prowling the building's exterior crannies with her mother. The Browns used to live in the Littleton area, and Jordan's brother Garrett, 17, who had friends at Columbine, was too upset to make the visit. "I thought the school was much bigger," says Greg Owens, 36, a Chicagoan who routed himself here after taking in Pikes Peak and Colorado sites. "But it sure touched me. For two teenagers to have done something like that...
...kind of genuine enthusiasm on radio and MTV that doesn't come around much anymore. The song reveals a crystalline voice full of wonderful shadings and with a soulful ring that sets her apart in the overhyped teen market. If bookmakers take odds on who will be a bigger star after Aguilera's self-titled debut album comes out Aug. 24, the smart money won't be on Durst...
Kosovo?s armed peace may be turning into a bigger headache for NATO than the war was ?- because this time, the alliance doesn?t know who to support. U.S. troops overnight Wednesday rushed to the rescue of their Russian comrades in the village of Dobrcane, firing over the heads of a crowd of ethnic-Albanians pelting the Russians with rocks. It was one of three clashes overnight between peacekeepers and supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, incidents which have become an almost daily occurrence as returning refugees seek vengeance on the province?s remaining Serbs and Russian peacekeepers...