Word: trended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fooled by the rally. The market came nowhere near to rectifying Tuesday's losses, and the overall trend is down. "People haven't made money in the market for four or five months," says TIME's Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "The average stock is down 25 percent since the year's high. Smaller stocks are down 40 percent. This is a real correction, whether the Dow trips 10 percent...
Ballmer will have plenty of other matters on his screen, however. Personal computer sales are on a downward trend, and the home and small-office/home-office markets, both hailed as the next wave in computing, are stagnant. In addition, that wild and wacky Internet, with its open standards, could potentially topple Microsoft's apple cart, eliminating the need for a Microsoft OS on every desktop...
...canniest take on the teen trend, go to a potential teen idol: James Marsden, the talented, feloniously gorgeous star of Disturbing Behavior, who speaks of teens from the remote perspective of his 25 years. "They are a very intelligent generation," he says, "more intelligent than I was. They are cynical, sarcastic. The less a movie tries to cater to them, the more they want to go see it. And their influence is amazing. Why don't you just have 14-year-olds run the studios...
...afford not to invest in the powerful trend toward people's shopping, at incredibly low prices, from the convenience of their homes? That was the pitch I used back when I was a broker at Goldman Sachs, and since that was in 1986-87, I wasn't hawking the Internet but rather an outfit called Home Shopping Network, which peddled stuff on TV and took orders by phone. Its stock had gone from 18 to 133 in the time it takes to say "cubic zirconium," and I thought it could only go higher. Instead, it suffered the most brutal, protracted...
...this year on strong sales growth--but still without earnings. And Broadcast.com which streams music and video over the Net, blew from 18 to 61 in its first six days of trading through last Friday, also with zero earnings. If you invest now, will you play the trend or get played for a chump...