Investor's Business Daily articles from June 2000

Investor's Business Daily archives from June 2000

QUALITIES ALL TOO RARE.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily The 41-year-old veteran ballplayer made last week what might be considered the ultimate sacrifice in sports: He asked for a demotion to the club's Class Aaffiliate in San Bernardino, Calif. "If I'm not able to...

SCHOOL BOARDS' MIND-SET.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily "This system needs him," said interim Superintendent Ramon Cortines. Do the school children of Los Angeles really need such a scofflaw to lead them? Or is a failed school district once more seeking a pol who...

QUALITIES ALL TOO RARE.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily The 41-year-old veteran ballplayer made last week what might be considered the ultimate sacrifice in sports: He asked for a demotion to the club's Class Aaffiliate in San Bernardino, Calif. "If I'm not able to...

Don't Be Tongue-Tied When Speaking Abroad.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Morey Stettner, Investor's Daily An upshot of today's global economy is that more U.S. executives find themselves talking to foreign audiences. For people who already dread public speaking, language barriers add a new challenge....

Don't Let Big Stock Losses Get Even Bigger.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Ed Carson, Investor's Daily Many investors fail to cut losses short. Faced with serious losses, they tellthemselves their stocks couldn't get any worse. They're wrong. Nobody likes toadmit a mistake. So people rationalize why they...

Naturalist Edward O. Wilson - He Turned Adversity Into An Opportunity To Explore New Directions.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Susan Vaughn, Investor's Daily In February 1978, naturalist Edward Wilson arrived at the Sheraton-Park Hotelin Washington, D.C., to make an important speech. He'd been asked by the American Association for the Advancement of...

Physician William Harvey - Careful Research Helped Him Discover Circulatory System.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Amy Reynolds Alexander, Investor's Daily William Harvey knew his fellow physicians might roll their eyes at his idea and call him stupid. So he came up with a solution ahead of time: He gathered facts until he'd formed a bulletproof...

Kmart Taps CVS President Conaway As New CEO - Floyd Hall Steps Aside As Discount Chain's Stock Flirts With Four-Year Lows.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Kmart Corp. has tapped the No. 2 executive at drug chain CVS Corp. as its new leader, replacing Floyd Hall as chairman and chief executive of the nation's third-largest retailer. Kmart said Wednesday that...

Rising Crude Prices Could Spur Hike In Output, Iran Says.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily OPEC power Iran said on Wednesday rising oil prices might force the cartel to decide in the next few weeks whether to hike output to cool the market. Iran's OPEC governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, speaking to...

Clinton Vows He'll Share Missile Defense Know-How.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily President Clinton assured Europeans Wednesday he is willing to share missile defense technology with "civilized nations" and said he will carry that messageto Moscow this weekend. If the technology is available...

Computers Made Plain - Free E-Mail Can Lick The Challenge Of Getting Info Delivered Anywhere.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Russell Shaw, Investor's Daily Checking your e-mail when you travel can be a complicated affair. You can useyour laptop computer, but you may not know the local dial-in number for your Internet account. If you try to use another...

Stock Fund Inflow Fell To $ 33.8 Bil In April - And Investors Appear To Have Slammed On Brakes In May.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Dan Moreau, Investor's Daily Riding high in April. Shot down in May. That about describes cash inflow to stock mutual funds. Investors shaken by market volatility this spring were still willing to pump $ 33.8 billion into stock...

Lucent Seeking To Get Its Fill Of Fiber Sales - Matches aggressive moves by rivals Cisco, Nortel by spending billions to acquire fiber-optic firm Chromatis.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Mike Angell, Investor's Daily Even in Internet time, it was one of the quickest deals venture capitalist Erel Margalit had seen. Lucent Technologies Inc. approached Margalit and his partners just two weeks ago about buying their...

IPO On-Deck Circle Full Of Hesitant E-Consultants.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Matthew Benjamin, Investor's Daily The many Internet consulting companies scheduled to come public this summer face a stark choice: take their slim chances at bat or take a rain check. "We're waiting until the market gets better,"...

Fidelity-Backed Colt Telecom Extending Its Fiber In Europe.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause, Investor's Daily Colt Telecom Group PLC has come a long way from its roots as City of London Telecommunications. Started in 1992, Colt's first move was to take on the U.K.'s dominant phone company, British Telecom...

Rebroadcast Fight Hits EchoStar As Channels Go Dark.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily More than 100,000 EchoStar satellite TV customers lost at least one of their local channels as the company and three broadcasting groups squabbled over agreements to carry those signals. EchoStar...

Hewlett To Be Key Tech Supplier To Amazon - HP's Share Of Retailer's Tech Business Goes From 10% To 90%.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Hewlett-Packard said on Wednesday it would provide 90% of Internet retailer Amazon.com's computer hardware and related systems, making Amazon one of HP's top five customers. "For a company that has $ 50 billion...

E-COMMERCE - Can Dry Cleaning Come Out In Web Wash?
June 1, 2000... Byline: Pete Barlas, Investor's Daily Investor's Business Daily Payam Zamani doesn't want to take anybody to the cleaners. He wants to bring the cleaners to them. In about a month, Zamani plans to introduce PurpleTie.com, a Web-based...

BUSINESS SYSTEMS - Troubled Baan Finds Buyer, U.K.'s Invensys.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Britain's Invensys PLC on Wednesday announced a $ 714 million cash bid for money-losing Dutch software firm Baan Co. NV. Invensys' shares, though, fell asinvestors worried that this was its riskiest deal ever....

Motorola Taps Flextronics In Outsource Pact - It'll Send $ 30 Bil In Business To Partner Over 5 Years, Get 5%.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Motorola, the world's No. 2 wireless phone maker, said Wednesday it signed an outsourcing pact with Flextronics International worth more than $ 30 billion over a five-year period and will take a small stake in...

Consumer E-Commerce Purchases Edged Up In 1st Quarter Over 4th.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily U.S. consumers boosted their online purchases of goods such as computers, books and toys in the first quarter of this year, although Internet sales stillaccounted for only a small portion of overall retail...

Emerging Markets Funds Follow U.S. Down For Strong Rebound Already Sown, Managers Assert.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Claire Mencke, Investor's Daily Emerging market stock funds were heroes over much of 1999. But recently, these winners have wilted. Their returns last year were often in the 75%-80% range. By the end of the first quarter this year,...

New-Home Sales Fell 5.8% In April - Finally Bite April leading indicators also dip, as do regional reports. But some aren't yet declaring a slowdown.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver, Investor's Daily Some crucial reports showed clues that the 175 basis points in interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve finally may be taking a bite out of this economy'storrid pace of growth. Sales of new homes...

Health Care: It's Not Just For Sick People.
June 1, 2000... Byline: M. Susan Basas, Investor's Daily Employers are constantly looking for ways to create a healthier and more productive work force. But plain-vanilla health benefits alone don't ensure employees are healthy or performing at their most...

Running Numbers: Self-Delusion Defines Society's Use Of Arithmetic.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Gary M. Galles Study after study finds Americans incompetent in mathematics. Is this surprising, given the number games we use to distort reality? Take grade inflation, one of the more misleading games...

Businesses Look For Big-Time Gains After China Trade Bill Becomes Law.
June 1, 2000... Byline: Joseph Guinto, Investor's Daily Fast: How do you translate "code division multiple access" into Chinese? The answer may be important to investors. Important, that is, if the Senate does what it's expected to do this month: follow...

Crude Plummets On Supply Talk; Coffee Crashes; Pork Bellies Sizzle.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Crude oil prices plunged more than 4% Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange on the widespread belief that another production increase by OPEC countries is imminent. The selling mood extended to other...

Fed Might Avoid Raising Rates, Which Leads To Rally In Bonds.
June 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Reuters U.S. Treasuries rallied Wednesday after a series of weaker-than-expected economic reports raised hopes that the Federal Reserve would not have to boost interest rates as aggressively as once feared....

FED UP? - Market Recovery Might Poke Along Until Greenspan Finishes Tightening.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Paul Katzeff, Investor's Daily What Will End Market's Sluggish Recovery? Correction Lingers As Wall Street Finally Agrees, 'Don't Fight Fed' Bob Doll's mood was somber as he and other Americans headed into what was supposed to be...

Room-Service Cuisine: It's Not An Oxymoron.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Larry Olmsted, Investor's Daily Can't get a reservation at the hot restaurant in town? Maybe you should just let them bring the food to you. More top restaurants are moving into hotels, offering their menus via room service. Some...

Use Trend Lines To Follow Long-Term Trail.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Christina Wise, Investor's Daily Trend lines typically aren't the best tools in deciding when to sell a winning stock. But they can help preserve your gains. Trend lines show the general path a stock is taking. They connect a...

Jay Tracey Is Bouncing Back To Berger Funds.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Ken Hoover, Investor's Daily Jay Tracey learned to manage a mutual fund from the late William Berger, founder of Denver-based Berger Funds, who hired him in 1976 as an analyst and later as a portfolio manager. Berger specialized in...

Cosmetics Maker Madam C.J. Walker - She Reached Out To Black Women Around The Globe By Following.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Emily Nash, Investor's Daily Sometimes great ideas come when the mind is still, when intellectual clutter is set aside. For Madam C.J. Walker, that moment came in her sleep. It was 1905, and she dreamed that a black man told her to...

Advent's Stephanie DiMarco - She Took Irritation And Turned It Into Opportunity.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Mike Angell, Investor's Daily Stephanie DiMarco knew there had to be a better way to get her job done. The financial analyst had left three jobs in as many years after living through poor office environments, a bankruptcy and lousy...

Computers Made Plain - The Internet Brings More Freedom To Many Job-Seeking Free-Lancers.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Paul Korzeniowski, Investor's Daily Mark Fertig doesn't have to worry about finding clients in his day job as a professor of computer graphic design at James Madison University. But in his side job as a design free-lancer, Fertig's...

Sony Directing 'Entertaining' New PC Thrust - Newest attempt to gain in the personal computer market features low-end machines for imaging, movies and music.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz, Investor's Daily Consumer electronics powerhouse Sony Corp. is making a renewed push into desktop computers by focusing on what it knows best - entertainment. With its newest computers - some of which already out and...

Magellan Added To Tech Before Market Slumped.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Paul Katzeff, Investor's Daily daverr Risky Business: Magellan Bought Tech Plying Telecom And Net Themes, Fund Boosted Tech Before Market Tumble Stocks added to $ 109 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund in recent months reflect potent...

Firms Battling For A Piece Of Military Online Action.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Murray Coleman, Investor's Daily When fighter pilots need to bail out of airplanes in the future, the militarywants to make sure part of their journey can be traced through cyberspace. Bartering over the Net, Navy purchasing...

Electronic Arts Draws Up Plan To Gain From Sony, Microsoft.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz, Investor's Daily Larry Probst, chief executive of Electronic Arts Inc., has given his video game company a clear mission: to be the No. 1 provider of games on next-generation consoles, personal computers and the...

ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT - Emerging Multiplayer-Game Market In Play.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz, Investor's Daily Talk about multiplayer games. Companies by the busload are scrambling to enter the online games arena. Executives see Internet games as the next frontier, and many are launching Web sites this year...

LEGAL ISSUES - Microsoft, DOJ Get Delay On 'Minor' Points.
June 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily In a surprise delay, the judge in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case Thursday granted a Justice Department request for more time to explore possible areas ofagreement on secondary issues. But the government...

Factories Showed Slowdown In May As Impact Of Rate Increases Is Seen - Even the high-tech sector, which many had thought would be immune from Fed action, felt the pinch.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver, Investor's Daily The growth of the U.S. manufacturing economy slowed quite a bit in May, and the increase in prices paid for raw materials also moderated, an industry report said. The National Association of...

Wild Economy And Stock Market Volatility.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Ira Carnahan, Investor's Daily One day the stock market shoots up. The next day - sometimes the next hour - it crashes. It's getting hard to make a living. Such volatility makes investorsnervous. But what may be even more disturbing...

This Is Not Your Father's Inverted Yield Curve.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Marla Brill, Investor's Daily An inverted yield curve, traditionally the Grim Reaper of economic data, is creating much less concern now among bond market watchers than its gloomy reputation would suggest. "What we're looking at...

If The Economy Is Cooling Off, That Means Bonds Are Heating Up.
June 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Market News U.S. Treasuries jumped sharply midmorning Thursday, reversing opening weakness after getting additional evidence that the economy might be decelerating from its rapid growth rate, market sources...

Canadians' Bacon: Flat-Tax Proposals Sizzle As Canadians Flee High Taxes.
June 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Michael Taube The Canadian economy is called a state-run enterprise for good reason, as it has produced costly and ineffective social services, including a public health care system with few private...

Gore Has Drifted Leftward In Office; Is Evolution Principled Or Political?
June 2, 2000... Byline: Daniel J. Murphy, Investor's Daily The political animal in Al Gore has set his sights on proving Charles Darwin right - and it has little to do with his new earth-tone wardrobe. He has stakedhis survival as fittest White House...

DARK DAY FOR HUMAN LIBERTY.
June 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily ELIAN GONZALEZ A DARK DAY FOR HUMAN LIBERTY Yes, the judges of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on a strictly procedural understanding of the case, even hinting its regret that its own...

SYNECDOCHE SCHMYNECDOCHE.
June 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Think of the thousands of kids who didn't make it out of their classroom competitions, let alone to the National Spelling Bee finals. Sure, it would have been cool if you made it all the way to the Final Four...

Roth Or Regular IRA? Your Tax Rate Points The Way.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Julie Huynh, Investor's Daily Once you've maxed out your employer-sponsored retirement plans, such as your 401(k) or 403(b), you should consider contributing to an individual retirement account. You may not be able to put in much...

Brandywine Funds Does About-Face On Retail - Manager Friess Steers Portfolios Into Advanced Micro Devices.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Leo Fasciocco, Investor's Daily Brandywine Funds, which hones in on companies showing good earnings growth, was a heavy buyer of retail apparel and semiconductor stocks late last year. The $ 7 billion fund group's key buys in retail...

Emerging Breed Of Muni Bonds Is Taxable - Less-Familiar Bonds Offer Higher Yield To Attract Investors.
June 2, 2000... Byline: Stuart Weiss, Investor's Daily Municipal bonds are synonymous with tax-free, right? Usually, that's true. But a growing segment of the muni market is taxable. Taxable muni bond issuancerose from $ 300 million in 1985 to $ 18...

The Senate's Pests: Bill To Shield Kids Ignores Problem Of Vermin And Bugs.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Michael Fumento Whenever you hear that the House or Senate has approved something unanimously, your antennae should twitch. It is probably "feel good" legislation. But "feel good" and "do good" are often...

Gold Soars $ 10 As Dollar Sinks; Beans Surge, Sugar Goes Flying.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Gold prices jumped 3% Friday, spurred on by the rise in the U.S. unemploymentrate and the dollar's resulting decline against other currencies. In other markets, soybeans rose significantly and sugar hit a...

The Senate's Pests: Bill To Shield Kids Ignores Problem Of Vermin And Bugs.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Michael Fumento Whenever you hear that the House or Senate has approved something unanimously, your antennae should twitch. It is probably "feel good" legislation. But "feel good" and "do good" are often...

Greece, Slowly And Fitfully, Moves Away From Its Antiquated Socialism.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Brian Mitchell, Investor's Daily On the central square in Athens one recent Sunday evening, two worlds collided. In one corner, Greek communists paid tribute to fallen comrades. Icons of Josef Stalin and Che Guevara stared down from...

GORE'S GURU AND SLOW GROWTH.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily In comments made in Japan Thursday to the news outlet Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the former No. 2 at the Fed said he felt the most recent half-point interest-rate hike wasn't enough "to keep inflationary fears under...

Managers Fear Greenspan Will Derail Rally - They Argue That Rate Rises Already Have Had Intended Effect.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Peter McKenna, Investor's Daily While the economy appears to be slowing, and the market is rebounding as a result, some fund managers and market observers still fear that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will derail the burgeoning bull...

Fleet-Footed Calamos Growth Outruns Slump - Fund, Up 28% In '00, Moves In And Out Of Fast-Growing Stocks.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Tom Gray, Investor's Daily Calamos Growth: The Quick Stay Alive The stock market lately has been no place for the sluggish. But fund manager John Calamos has been staying ahead ofthe averages with some agile moves. In a rocky year...

Greece, Slowly And Fitfully, Moves Away From Its Antiquated Socialism.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Brian Mitchell, Investor's Daily On the central square in Athens one recent Sunday evening, two worlds collided. In one corner, Greek communists paid tribute to fallen comrades. Icons of Josef Stalin and Che Guevara stared down from...

What To Do If Your Workout Won't Work Out.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Lia Haberman You've put in a bunch of hours at the gym and given up dessert, but you're still not reaching your fitness goals. The truth is, you could be sabotaging your get-healthy goals. Here's a look at...

O'Neil: More Sell Rules Investors Must Master.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily In recent weeks IBD has reprinted key chapters from Bill O'Neil's latest book, "24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success." In Lesson 21, the last to be covered here, IBD's chairman and founder continues his...

GORE'S GURU AND SLOW GROWTH.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily In comments made in Japan Thursday to the news outlet Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the former No. 2 at the Fed said he felt the most recent half-point interest-rate hike wasn't enough "to keep inflationary fears under...

Northwest Air's Shares Advance Amid Talk Of American Merger.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Shares of Northwest Airlines jumped as much as 25% on Friday on a TV report that the No. 4 U.S. airline has been in talks to be acquired by AMR Corp., parent of American Air. Such a merger would follow the...

Russia Says It's Open To Missile Defense Plan - U.S. Officials Say Offer To Base Weapons There Is Nothing New.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily The latest proposals from Moscow for a shield to protect both Russia and the United States and its allies from missiles do not appear new and fail to address U.S. concerns, U.S. officials said Friday. On the...

Publisher Henry Luce - His Determination Brought The Newsmagazine To The American Public.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Christopher Tyner, Investor's Daily In early 1923, Henry Luce, 24, sat in his Manhattan office determined to change journalism. Luce (1898-1967) and Yale classmate Briton Hadden, 25, were putting together their first issue of Time,...

Writer Mark Twain - His Keen Eye For Details Helped Him Depict American Life.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver, Investor's Daily From the banks of the Mississippi to the silver-mining boomtowns of Nevada tothe literary salons of Boston, Mark Twain watched America closely. He reportedwhat he saw in novels and speeches and short...

Computers Made Plain - Product Makers Developing Ways To Access Digital Photographs Easily.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo, Investor's Daily Hate dragging vacation photos along with you and telling friends and family time after time what's going on in each picture? To make life easier, all you need is a hand-held computer and your photos in...

Reorganization The Latest - One-time business software champ puts renewed emphasis on sales and marketing in its makeover as an Internet player.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Matthew Benjamin, Investor's Daily Drastic circumstances demand drastic measures. Business software giant SAP AGis planning yet another radical move in its ongoing - and so far unsuccessful - effort to gain traction in the Internet...

Big Computer Associates Tired Of Being Unknown.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Matthew Benjamin, Investor's Daily If the average investor were a contestant on "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" and had to name the world's two largest software companies, the response could well be immediate: Microsoft Corp. and...

$ 1.6 Billion Venture Fund Says Stock Market's Fall Will Help.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Jed Graham, Investor's Daily Bio Box: Jay Hoag Technology Crossover Ventures General partner 42 years oldB.A., economics and politicalscience, Northestern University, MBA, University ofMichigan On April 3, the Nasdaq composite was...

ONLINE INVESTING - Schwab Buy Helps Image Of Day Trading.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Jed Graham, Investor's Daily Money might not buy love, but a mere half-billion dollars bought respect for the much maligned day-trading industry. Instead of an opportunistic fad wroughtby stock market excesses, day trading - buying...

LEGAL ISSUES - Can Canada Be The Answer For Microsoft?
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Microsoft won't cross the border, despite reports of Canadian interest REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft Corp. in the Great White North? Bill Gates defecting to Canada? A British Columbia official likes that...

Boomer, Teen Apparel Chains Thrive Thanks To Economy, Demographics - But only the best will continue to prosper if the economy slows down, as now seems the case.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Marilyn Much, Investor's Daily Flush with cash and enticed by new fashions, Americans have been spending on clothes like it's going out of style. Stores have been driving traffic with improved merchandise, catchy brand campaigns,...

Investors In And Out Of Bonds After Seeing Weak Job Numbers.
June 5, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Market News U.S. Treasuries ended slightly higher Friday, erasing most of their early gains as traders logged profits following a stunningly weak jobs report, sources said. At 3 p.m. Eastern time the 30...

Fleet-Footed Calamos Growth Outruns Slump - Fund, Up 28% In '00, Moves In And Out Of Fast-Growing Stocks.
June 5, 2000... Byline: Tom Gray, Investor's Daily Calamos Growth: The Quick Stay Alive The stock market lately has been no place for the sluggish. But fund manager John Calamos has been staying ahead ofthe averages with some agile moves. In a rocky year...

Treasuries Hit The Fast Track While The Economy Slows Down.
June 6, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Reuters U.S. Treasuries finished higher on Monday as fears of higher interest rates subsided after last week's weaker-than-expected U.S. employment report. "A lot of people were still digesting the...

What To Do About A Troubled Colleague.
June 6, 2000... Byline: Tim Haddock, Investor's Daily COPING WITH COWORKERS' ADCTIONS The synergy you and your business partner once had seems to have evaporated. Some days it's like his mind is hardly even there. Other days he comes through with a...

New Highs In Weak Volume Raise Red Flag.
June 6, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily New Highs On Low Volume Often Spell Trouble By David Saito-Chung When a stocktops, it can trade in two ways: furiously or quietly. The climax run is a model of furious action. After a stock has ramped up 100%...

Inventor Robert G. LeTourneau - Perseverance And Innovation Helped Him Build Heavy Equipment Maker.
June 6, 2000... Byline: Christina Wise, Investor's Daily Robert Gilmour LeTourneau was tired of backbreaking manual labor. LeTourneau (1888-1969) had dropped out of school in the seventh grade, shortly after he and his family moved to Portland, Ore. He'd...

Broadcom's Henry Nicholas - Pursuing Excellence Fuels His Company's Growth.
June 6, 2000... Byline: Curt Schleier, Investor's Daily Henry T. Nicholas III admits he doesn't have any formal business training. But that hasn't stopped the co-founder, president and chief executive of Irvine, Calif.-basedBroadcom Corp. from building...

Computers Made Plain - Adobe Systems' Acrobat Software Can Help Your Documents Perform.
June 6, 2000... Byline: Lynn Walford, Investor's Daily Would you like to be able to distribute your document, flier or ad digitally and be confident recipients see an image the way you designed it, no matter on what system they view it? Would you like to...

Online Insurer - InsWeb cuts staff and costs as it deals with New Economy's new reality that says Net firms need to make net profit.
June 6, 2000... Byline: Jed Graham, Investor's Daily InsWeb Corp. managers got the message: Wall Street's money well is running dry for money-losing, consumer-oriented dot-coms. So, the one-time billion-dollar Internet insurance company is loading up its...

EchoStar Outlook Fading As Digital Cable Emerges.
June 6, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause, Investor's Daily If you own shares in EchoStar Corp., it may be time to call the repairman. The satellite TV broadcaster's picture suddenly looks fuzzy. Despite strong subscriber growth in the first quarter,...