Word: bottomly
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...sinking is that the torpedo was detonated prematurely, popping rivets. "Rivet technology wasn't very well developed in the 19th century," says team director Robert Neyland, the U.S. Navy's chief underwater archaeologist. It may have been hit by Union fire. Or maybe it got stuck on the bottom and the crew opened the sea cocks in a suicide pact. Even if the mystery is never solved, however, the multimillion-dollar recovery will be deemed worthwhile. "This was the first successful submarine in warfare," says Neyland, "and it was the prototype for subs that came later...
...good companies on weakness, when it looks as if the bottom is falling out, and hold for the long term. That includes blue-chip tech names. Look for companies that will continue to hold up as the economy slows --food and drug stocks, for example. Financial stocks should rally as the Fed stops hiking rates. Face it: sometimes boring is best...
Robinson knows we'll see chimps back in orbit before we see a federal mandate for vacation time. But he hopes a debate on the bottom-line realities of burnout will inspire a rash of enlightened self-interest among employers. So before you see how far you can get this summer on your short vacation leash, take a trip to Escapemag.com and sign a petition. Provence, Tuscany, the Greek isles--your employer owes you nothing less. Workers of the world, unite...
...want it as their capital). At least for public consumption, Barak and Arafat each insist they're the one doing all the compromising and the other guy's being stubborn. U.S. diplomats, as one put it, keep hearing the same line from both men: ?I've put down my bottom lines and I've got nothing in return...
Here we go again. Stocks set off on a fair-to-middling rally (by recent standards, anyway) Friday after hearing the fair-to-middling good news about wholesale prices from the Labor Department. The Producer Price Index, a bottom-of-the-food-chain indicator of inflation pressure, was unchanged in May, which was good news for those watching Chairman Greenspan's interest-rate trigger finger; on the other hand, the possibly more reliable "core" rate, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, edged up 0.2 percent. Complicating matters: Prognosticators were agreeably surprised by the first number and slightly disappointed...