Word: runup
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Which it might. This could be the real thing - if not a recession, then at least some extended humdrums of 2 to 3 percent growth. Even if the tech sector can bottom out soon and adjust its expectations accordingly, there'll be no 43 percent runup in 2001, and no gold rush to go with it. And with no "wealth effect" for consumers and no market magnet for international investment, America's imperviousness to global slowdowns should be greatly reduced...
Christmas season, 2000: Rodney King rhetoric ("Can't we all just get along?") competes with language that sounds like the runup to the Civil...
...dollars a barrel, last week's high. And the prospect of stiff prices for heating oil this winter is already giving us a chill. Not surprisingly, share prices for the big three oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP Amoco, and Royal Dutch, have risen accordingly. If you missed Big Oil's runup, consider Not So Big Oil: companies such as Conoco and USX Marathon have been relatively ignored by investors, but they're turning analysts' heads. "These are companies whose profits have exploded while their share prices remain dormant," says Ed Maran of A.G. Edwards. While a company like ExxonMobil...
...lack of accessibility to the fire department, and David Koresh muses drily about an FBI agent's head exploding. Such are not the linchpins of an excessive-force case. Government lawyers are already on Judge Walter S. Smith's bad side for procedural hijinks in the trial's runup. They'll have to be embarrassed all over again about the incendiary devices. But if the case turns on the character of the victims, the name Koresh will take the government a long...
...geopolitical black arts are precisely where Primakov comes in. Although the former foreign minister and prime minister was sidelined by Yeltsin in the runup to Putin's accession and had been the presidential candidate of a rival grouping, Putin evidently bears no grudge. Indeed, they're cut from the same cloth - Primakov is a former KGB chief and Putin headed up its successor organization, the FSB. Putin underlined the significance of that connection soon after taking power, at a highly symbolic gathering at a remote dacha. In the presence of senior intelligence officers, Putin presented Primakov with a hunting rifle...