Word: clouds
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Many analysts say a gray cloud has been hovering over the NASDAQ since New Year's, one noticed by institutional investors but not by the individual investors caught up in ongoing enthusiasm for all things Internet. Throw in the promise of continued interest rate hikes by Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and it adds up to a major correction waiting to happen. A correction is generally held to be a 10-percentage-point drop-off. At its low point Tuesday, the NASDAQ was off about 25 percent from its high...
...Every cloud has a silver lining, even a puff of exhaust. For some folks, there's a brighter side to the higher price of gasoline...
...This is certainly good for Jewish gays," notes TIME staff writer John Cloud, who reports on homosexual rights issues. "I don't think any other denominations are interested in doing something like this, but the move does carry some symbolic weight for all gays. It's another little step...
...Since cell phones work by picking up on radio waves in the air, these waves are honed in by the antenna which, when held up to an ear while talking, is strategically placed next to the brain. Thus while the unknowing listener converses, an atmospheric cloud of carcinogens is circling around his or her head...
...current account deficit may be too complex to become an election issue, but if it continues its current surge it could become the economic cloud that rains heavily on the next presidency. The problem is partly a product of the new pattern of U.S. manufacturing: Some 40 percent of U.S. imports are goods manufactured overseas by U.S. corporations. "The best hope for relief is that Japan, China and other Asian governments manage to revive their economies and drop remaining trade barriers so that they buy more goods and services from the U.S.," says Baumohl. But while America waits and hopes...