Word: setback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time things were different. The Dow fell Wednesday. And the next day. And the next day, losing ground for the seventh trading day out of the previous eight and posting a 411-point, or 5%, setback for the week. Despite the release last week of fresh reports chronicling persistent low unemployment and rising orders for factory goods, anxiety spread from the stock market to the "real" economy of jobs and paychecks. The market drop served as a reminder--one about as subtle as a poke in the eye--that in today's global economy, not even a healthy...
Wellons said these parameters were modeled after the height and setback area of The Inn at Harvard...
...long as Kendall is in charge, it may be a while before anyone knows the answer. Kendall operates so far below the radar that when the President's lawyer dealt Starr his most significant setback, it took nearly a month before word got out of the judge's chambers. Even Clinton's own strategists had no inkling that something serious had happened until last Tuesday morning, when White House counsel Charles Ruff warned them that the reporters covering the comings and goings of grand-jury witnesses were likely to notice some extra activity that day on the fifth floor...
...Even if he manages to pin down a Lewinsky fascination with telephonic trysts, Starr may be facing a setback in his bid to prove that the President helped the former intern find a job in exchange for her silence in the Paula Jones case. U.S. News and World Report yesterday released portions of Linda Tripp's tapes, which, they claim, prove that Clinton was helping Lewinsky find a job two months before she was subpoenaed by Jones. At least the independent counsel will be able to console himself with some interesting reading...
...compete against me and other pros in short-term trading, quit your day job and really get in the game. Otherwise, focus on researching long-term investments. Track strong businesses that you've researched, and wait for their stocks to be oversold by traders overreacting to some short-term setback. I saw two good examples just last week: Eli Lilly and Xerox. (Full disclosure: I'm long on both stocks.) Here you can beat me and the market. You can take a longer view--not least because you don't have to report every quarter to those 98 rich guys...