Word: wind
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...regular physical--and without exploratory surgery. Though this sounds like a good idea, in reality the same sort of technology envy that fueled the fluoroscope frenzy seems largely responsible for this latest craze as well. Only this time around, folks who get caught up in the hype could wind up losing peace of mind and a lot of money as well as damaging their health...
Radcliffe will certainly have a nice day on the River, no matter what the outcome. The forecast today calls for partly cloudy skies and a high of 77 degrees. The wind yesterday was a mild nine miles per hour from the West...
...with the insipid Fed-watching that had gripped their Old Economy brethren ever since "irrational exuberance." We're betting on the future, they said, and the future is always bright for geeks. Now, two months and a staggering 37 percent later, NASDAQ is the wisp in the Fed's wind. Tuesday, week-old worries about another interest rate raise in the wake of last week's half-percent hike comments hit the Dow for 120 and the NASDAQ for 200 (to 3164, low for the year), a disproportion that is becoming old hat for index watchers...
...suit anyway. "When rates go up, companies don't have as much money to invest in new technology. That cuts into tech firms' sales, which makes those P/E ratios look even worse." In any case, whenever a Fed chairman can't stop the economy, trouble is definitely in the wind. And now that investors have glimpsed the tech sector's mortality, and read the news articles about venture capitalists turning off the money - and seen venerable Cisco Systems mired in the low 50s - trouble from the Fed is likely to hit the NASDAQ first and hardest for a while. Those...
...ring, the woman an indentured servant he was smuggling into the U.S. Caught by the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the Los Angeles International Airport on April 11, the adults were swiftly deported. The INS was about to send the boy back too when the local Thai community got wind of the case. Who, they demanded, would get custody? Apparently, the woman who sold...