Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Some brokerages were poised to send out margin calls early this week, though a rally Friday may have provided a reprieve. Many investors, it seems, became so convinced that prices were cheap last spring that they doubled up, partly with borrowed money. Now lots of stocks are even cheaper. The NASDAQ bottomed at 3165 on May 23, suckered in a wave of new money with a 1,000-point rally, then collapsed in stunning fashion--closing as low as 3075 on Thursday. From the March 10 peak of 5049, the index dropped 39%. In the 17 trading days ending Friday...
...must halt by year's-end. Many believe the Middle East issues won't force oil prices much higher and oil could retreat modestly fairly soon. Despite the many earnings warnings, overall corporate profits will be up about 15% this year and 10% more next year. Largely ignored last week were solid results from PC maker Gateway and optical-networking company Corning...
When Jack St. Clair Kilby, a 34-year-old electrical engineer from Grand Bend, Kans., began working at a fledgling Dallas company called Texas Instruments in May 1958, he didn't yet qualify for the annual two-week summer vacation. So, come July, he had the lab pretty much to himself to try out something that had long been bugging him. Why, he wondered, couldn't all those tiny components--transistors, resistors, capacitors--in TI's electronic gadgetry be created out of a single block of material instead of separately wired parts? By September, he was ready to show...
...just to put them on their applications." Another is to ask how many hours students spend on each activity. And in an instance where the numbers seemed high? A gimlet-eyed Cornell officer whipped out a calculator to reveal that the (unsuccessful) applicant claimed to spend 50 hours a week on after-school pursuits...
...application with "overcome" factors. At Cornell, admissions readers were initially not too impressed by a student with good test scores but whose grades were all over the map. Then a reader noticed that she came from a family with no higher education and worked up to 40 hours a week as a cashier. But it was her essay that really swayed the committee, as she described being derisively called "white girl" by some other blacks and related how a classmate told her that he "looked forward to seeing me 'flipping burgers' after graduation...