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That's how bear markets go. Instead of every dip being a buying opportunity, every rally becomes a chance to unload. "For the first time in a while, people have got really scared," notes longtime bear Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He was expecting more selling this week, fueled by margin calls, margin-related liquidations and fidgety institutions. Mutual-fund investors, generally, have been holding on, Biggs says, though they haven't been aggressive buyers, and some fund companies got hit with redemptions. [What should you do? For advice on riding out volatile markets...
...Mosaic, and other such programs. The U.S. Education Department is backing away from the checklist of warning signs it sent to every school in the nation in 1998. In a mass mailing this week, the department declares that relying on such lists can "harm children and waste resources." Instead, it counsels teachers and parents to use the much lower-tech and more labor-intensive approach of keeping their eyes and ears alert at all times, not only for overt threats but also for troubled students who need help...
Though Oprah, based in Chicago, is rarely seen in the O offices, she intervened often in the editing process, peppering King with ideas, demanding changes when she found some helpful hint too condescendingly obvious, and insisting that the table of contents come at the very beginning of the magazine instead of after pages and pages of advertising, as in most glossy monthlies. Oprah tried on every fashion item featured in the magazine's "O List," according to King. "She won't recommend something she hasn't tried herself," says King. "There's one list in which you have...
...seniors to attend college next year. He plans to continue the program, with recipients chosen each year according to talent and need. Unfortunately, his move sets an unreasonably high precedent for full-time principals, who will now be forced to command the respect of students by doling out cash instead of detention...
...asked, do I keep my baby from getting expelled from nursery school? "Next time," he said, "offer an alternative. Teach a silly word instead, like baloney or hogwash. If a two-year-old says dagnabbit, people are bound to laugh." But when I tried this at the supermarket the next day, Clementine began to sing, "Dad's rabbit is an asko, asko, asko." No one in Condiments laughed. While we were not exactly asked to leave, I felt it wise to limit my purchases to 15 items to qualify for express checkout...