Investor's Business Daily articles from May 2000

Investor's Business Daily archives from May 2000

Biochemist Stanford Moore - His Careful Research Helped Demystify Enzymes And Win A Nobel Prize.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Rex Crum, Investor's Daily Stanford Moore knew the value of listening to the advice of others, even if it meant having to change his mind on a subject. As a young man, Moore (1913-82) was faced with entering one of two nascent...

Vintner Robert Mondavi - He Harvested His Passion To Build Up California Wines.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Kerry Jackson, Investor's Daily Robert Mondavi wanted the world to know about his California wine. But how would he get people to try it? He couldn't do it by sitting in the Napa Valley wine country and hoping customers would seek...

Computers Made Plain - Forget Slipping The Maitre 'd $ 20, Go To Web For Hot Reservations.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Julie Mitchell, Investor's Daily Picture this: Your sweetheart's birthday is coming up and you want to take him or her to the newest, hottest, most talked-about restaurant in town. But when you call for a reservation, your choices...

ON Shares Turn On Traders In Market Debut The former Motorola unit's offering posts a respectable gain and marks the second marquee IPO in as many days.
May 1, 2000... Byline: James DeTar, Investor's Daily Splash In Initial Offering The semiconductor market is hot. And ON Semiconductor's $ 480 million initial public offering generated some heat of its own Friday. The former Motorola Inc. analog chip unit...

Chip Gear Sales Are Hot, But Can Good Times Last?
May 1, 2000... Byline: James DeTar, Investor's Daily How high is up? When it comes to chip equipment sales, no one seems to know. Orders for gear used to produce chips rose in March for the fifth straight month, according to Semiconductor Equipment and...

As Internet Threats Increase, Symantec Targets Businesses.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Donna Howell, Investor's Daily If your computer crashes, catches a virus or needs a chaperon on the Net, you're likely to call on Norton for help. Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec Corp. makes the popular Norton line of software,...

March Personal Income Grew 0.7% As Spending Rose A Slower 0.5%.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Americans' incomes rose last month even faster than spending, something that hasn't happened since October. The Commerce Department reported Friday that personal income, which includes wages, interest and...

Soros' Quantum Fund Replaces Top Strategist - After Big Tech Losses, Fund Will Take A Lower-Risk Approach.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Soros Funds Reorganize, Strategist Out NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's largest hedge fund, Soros Fund Management, said Friday the top manager of its flagship Quantum Fund, Stanley Druckenmiller, would resign...

INTERACTIVE TV - Players Emerge In Brewing Set-Top Derby.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz, Investor's Daily Mergers and acquisitions are rocking the fledgling interactive television field, as rivals rush to fill gaps in their software offerings. PowerTV Inc., an independent unit of cable box maker...

DIGITAL MUSIC - Class Of 2000 IPO Loudeye Holds Its Own.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Pete Barlas, Investor's Daily Three years ago, when Martin Tobias finished filming and starring in a low-budget motorcycle flick, "Biker Dreams," he was dismayed that he couldn't find a way to distribute the epic over the Internet....

Oil Drillers Hope Energy Price Rise Will End Their Two-Year Dry Spell - Activity in Gulf of Mexico, elsewhere should pick up, but Big Oil's flat budget for drilling is a negative.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Mike Angell, Investor's Daily Filling your tank locally requires drilling globally. The world's newest reserves of crude oil are found off the shores of Gabon, Brazil and Myanmar. Such deep reserves were previously out of reach....

Conseco CEO, Financial Officer Stepping Down Under Pressure.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Bowing to investor pressure, Conseco Inc.'s two top executives are stepping down from their posts at the troubled financial services company. Chairman Stephen Hilbert said Friday the company's recent problems...

Mirabella Magazine Folds Amid Weak Ads.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Mirabella magazine, geared toward intellectual women who also want to keep up with the latest fashion trends, apparently couldn't find enough readers fittingthat description. The magazine's parent company,...

U.S. Tells Russia Of Missile Defense Plans.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily The Clinton administration outlined to Russian negotiators a two-phase programto defend the U.S. against missile attack from Asia and later the Middle East,a senior U.S. official said. Deployment of a limited...

N.Y.'s Giuliani To Curtail Campaign Activity - Mayor To Consult Doctors On Prostate Cancer Treatment First.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Giuliani Says Cancer Forces Campaign Event Cuts From IBD News Services NEW YORK - New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Friday that he would attend fewer events in the next two weeks in his U.S. Senate...

From Nixon To Gore: Lawyers Who Break The Law In The White House.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By John Meroney George W. Bush, in his search to start prairie fires across America, should remind voters that the last thing we need is another lawyer president. Just consider the experience the country has...

Congressional Democrats Eye Voters This Year, Not Legislative Successes.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Peter Cleary, Investor's Daily Who could possibly argue against putting families first? The Democrats hope the answer will let them take back control of at least one house of Congress. "There's a great feeling of excitement amongst...

VIETNAM: A SPECIAL FAITH.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Most citizens of Vietnam today were born after Saigon, South Vietnam's bustling capital, surrendered to North Vietnamese troops of "liberation." What they experienced - and what the fleeing Vietnamese clearly...

Government Seeks Microsoft Split; Proposes Office, Windows Entities.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Nick Turner, Investor's Daily Government antitrust lawyers confirmed Microsoft Corp.'s longstanding fears Friday, calling for a breakup of the company into two entities. The proposal calls for Microsoft to split its Windows...

LAW DAY OR LAWYERS' DAY?
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Now it looks more like a propaganda tool for the American Bar Association than a celebration of the rule of law. Frankly, we'd rather ignore Law Day. Howmuch meaning can it have in an America that has become so...

Stock Funds Fell About 3.3% In Tough April - But They Rallied By 2.7% During The Month's Final Week.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Peter McKenna, Investor's Daily Stung by sharp reversals in the Nasdaq and Dow industrials, mutual fund performance declined in April before rebounding in the eleventh hour. In the four weeks from March 30 to April 27, the 4,561...

NAVs Picture Payout Adjustments Can Cause Mistaken Sense Of Drop In Value.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Ken Hoover, Investor's Daily In the fast-moving markets of the past month, mutual fund investors have ripped open their morning newspapers or logged on to their favorite financial Web sites with more urgency than usual to see how...

Dollar Muscles Gold Downward; Natural Gas Rises; Soybeans Fall.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Gold prices slid to a seven-month low Friday, pressured by the dollar's continued strength and the imminent gold sale by the Swiss National Bank. In other markets, natural gas prices leapt higher and soybeans...

Shorter Maturities Can't Keep Up While Traders Shake Over Rates.
May 1, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily U.S. Treasury bonds bounced higher late Friday, but shorter maturities suffered their fifth straight day of losses on fears of inflation and higher interest rates sparked by recent economic data. "The market's...

When A Cynic Threatens Your Office Morale.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Gary M. Stern, Investor's Daily Webster's defines a cynic as "a faultfinding critic who is distrustful of human nature and motives." Surely, that isn't you. But even if management missteps and office infighting never dampen your...

New Winners Grow Out Of Market Bottoms.
May 1, 2000... Byline: Ed Carson, Investor's Daily The recent sell-off has sunk a lot of investors. Don't let that stop you frommissing the next boat. Perhaps you didn't get off margin in time and held ontostocks too long. Massive gains turned into slim...

Don't Let Emotions Rule You In Weak Market.
May 2, 2000... Byline: David Saito-Chung, Investor's Daily Everyone feels great when stocks are pumping higher. But when the market goessour, the emotions that cloak investors can be too much to bear. A bear marketcan turn intelligent, confident people...

Explorer John Wesley Powell - He Learned To Network To Gain Support For His Western Expeditions.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Laura Diggs Joyner, Investor's Daily It was 1867, and John Wesley Powell needed money for an expedition into the Western mountains. Congress wouldn't give him any. He had only one arm, many congressmen noted. How could he do...

Landstar System's Jeffrey Crowe - His High-Tech Network Of Truckers Lets Them Ride High.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Christopher L. Tyner, Investor's Daily Arriving at work Easter Monday morning, Landstar System Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Crowe did what he usually does at some point each day - made the rounds. Crowe, 53, talked with three of his...

Computers Made Plain - Recordable Compact Discs Let Users Carry Around 450 Diskettes Of Data.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Lynn Walford, Investor's Daily Imagine carrying the equivalent of more than 450 diskettes of your data, photos or presentations with in your pocket. With recordable compact discs, youcan do just that. And because most computers have...

Re: Microsoft, Investors Seem To - First trading after breakup proposal finds shares of the software leader rising, but analysts aren't sure just why.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Nick Turner, Investor's Daily Microsoft shares were no hot potato Monday, with investors snatching them up in the first trading session since a proposed breakup of the company. Microsoftshares rose 3 1 1/16 to 73 7/16. But the...

Hewlett-Packard In Quest For E-Services Brass Ring.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Rex Crum, Investor's Daily Hewlett-Packard Co. admits it's had to play catch-up in the race to become anInternet company. And since high-profile Chief Executive Carly Fiorina came onboard in 1999, HP has made electronic services -...

E-Servicer Atomic Tangerine Sees No Fallout In Pay Plan.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Matthew Benjamin, Investor's Daily Internet consulting is becoming a crowded field. Some 35 public companies aredevoted to it, with more on the way. Any new entrant to the sector must differentiate itself, to customers and...

Time Warner Cable Systems Pull ABC From Lineup - Move Is In Retaliation For Stalled Talks Over Licensing Fees Between Two Media Firms.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Time Warner Drops 7 ABC Stations From Cable Systems From IBD News Services NEW YORK - For many ABC fans, it wasn't a good morning America Monday. A quarrel over transmission rights between Time Warner Inc. and...

Intel Mass-Producing Faster Network Chip.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily KERSANTA CLARA, Calif. (Reuters) - Intel Corp. on Monday said the company hadbegun mass-production of new higher speed network processors that are key to its thrust into new communications markets. he company...

E-COMMERCE - Internet Marketing Tie-Ins Come Untied.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Pete Barlas, Investor's Daily When sweepstakes company LuckySurf.com Inc. wanted to sell products over the Web last year, it eagerly joined marketing forces with Net retailers CDnow Online Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. LuckySurf.com...

NETWORK SECURITY - Hackers, Security Firms Wage Code War.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Donna Howell, Investor's Daily Remember the Cold War? Well, get ready for the code war. Computer security experts say we're entering a new era of skirmishes between hackers and the guardians of corporate computer networks. Recent...

Will 'New Economy' Shrivel And Die As Inflation Again Rears Its Head? - Economists see troubling signs in recent price data, but aren't ready to predict the boom's over yet.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver, Investor's Daily What new economy? That's what many are asking after looking at recent economic data. For years, some economists have insisted that the U.S. economy has entered a new era. Inflation was virtually...

Economist Edwards On The World Economy.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Jim Christie, Investor's Daily It's not all upside potential for the world economy, says Sebastian Edwards, a former Latin America economist for the World Bank who now teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles. Much...

U.S. Civil Rights Panel Opposes China's WTO Bid - Advisory Group First Wants To See 'Substantial Improvement' In Religious Freedom.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Rights Panel Opposes Upgrading Trade Status For China WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal advisory panel created to promote religious rights declared Monday thatChina should be denied permanent normal trade status...

Top Terror Threat Seen As South Asia, Not Middle East.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Locus Of terrorism Shifts From Middle East To South Asia, Report Says WASHINGTON (AP) - The locus of terrorism has shifted from the Middle Eastto South Asia, where Afghanistan serves as the primary safe haven...

AOL Taps Homestore.com For Real Estate.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) - Homestore.com will become the exclusive providerof real estate information for America Online and its subsidiaries under a five-year deal valued at about $ 200 million....

Dutch Fin'l Group ING Is Buying ReliaStar For $ 5.1 Bil, Plus Debt.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily From IBD News Services NEW YORK - Dutch financial services giant ING Groep NVagreed Monday to buy ReliaStar Financial Corp. for $ 5.1 billion cash plus $ 1billion in debt in the latest consolidation in the U.S....

Germany's Siemens Will Acquire Shared Medical For $ 2.1 Billion.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Siemens To Buy Shared Medical for $ 2.1 Bil NEW YORK (Reuters) - German industrial and technology group Siemens AG will buy No. 2 U.S. health care computer services company Shared Medical Systems Corp. in a...

Orwellian Speak: Clinton And Reno Cite 'Rule Of Law' To Sate Big Brother.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily For the first time in American history, a federal SWAT team invaded a privatehome in a child custody case. The door was smashed, an NBC cameraman kicked inthe stomach by INS agents, and lawyers for the child in...

Capitol Hill Republicans Gain Ground On Tax Cut, Education Reform Issues.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Peter Cleary, Investor's Daily Do no harm and ride the coattails. A simple strategy that, last year, Republicans were sure would let them coast to victory in 2000. But life has gotten more complicated for the GOP in Congress since...

JUSTICE'S HOSTILE TAKEOVER.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily News of the plan was a burning news topic over the weekend. But there's stillone nagging unanswered - and rarely asked - question: What right does the government have to break up Microsoft? Joel Klein, the...

THE CULTURE WAR AND COURTS.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Justice David Souter lectured the Boy Scouts on its opposition to homosexual scoutmasters, while Justice Sandra Day O'Connor objected to Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortion, asserting that it could...

Proceed With Caution In The B-To-B Sector - But Some See Revenue Growth And Cash Reserves As Strong.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Peter McKenna, Investor's Daily It seemed like a great idea at the time. Now, in the mercurial world of the Internet, it's just a good idea, or perhaps a bad idea - or it could still be agreat idea after all. In 1998 large...

Atlas Strategic Growth Sticks By Its Techs - Fund, Up 11%, Is Willing To Weather Storms With Strong Stocks.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Ken Hoover, Investor's Daily When the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1,726 points between March 10 and April 14,a fall of 34%, Bruce Bartlett, manager of the $ 140 million Atlas Strategic Growth Fund,stuck to his discipline and did not...

Corn, Soybean Prices Like It Dry; Natural Gas, Coffee Bubble Higher.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Prices for corn and soybeans rocketed 5% higher Monday on new dry-weather forecasts that heightened worries the nation's top two crops will experience off years due to a worsening drought. In other markets,...

Southward Bonds Get The Feeling Fed Will Make Serious Rate Move.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily U.S. Treasuries weakened in thin trade late Monday, still defensive after economic data released last week raised fears of higher inflation and underscored the potential for a more aggressive credit tightening...

Will 'New Economy' Shrivel And Die As Inflation Again Rears Its Head? - Economists see troubling signs in recent price data, but aren't ready to predict the boom's over yet.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver, Investor's Daily What new economy? That's what many are asking after looking at recent economic data. For years, some economists have insisted that the U.S. economy has entered a new era. Inflation was virtually...

U.S. Civil Rights Panel Opposes China's WTO Bid - Advisory Group First Wants To See 'Substantial Improvement' In Religious Freedom.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Rights Panel Opposes Upgrading Trade Status For China WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal advisory panel created to promote religious rights declared Monday thatChina should be denied permanent normal trade status...

Top Terror Threat Seen As South Asia, Not Middle East.
May 2, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Locus Of terrorism Shifts From Middle East To South Asia, Report Says WASHINGTON (AP) - The locus of terrorism has shifted from the Middle East to South Asia, where Afghanistan serves as the primary safe haven...

Attention, Kmart Investors: Retailer Is Likely To Be Second Fiddle Awhile.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Marilyn Much, Investor's Daily Imagine being locked in a cage with an 800-pound gorilla that slams you around several thousand times a day. That's how analyst Robert Buchanan of A.G.Edwards & Co. describes the strategic positioning...

Dealing With Deception In Negotiations.
May 2, 2000... Byline: Tim Haddock, Investor's Daily RECOGNIZING AND DEALING WITH DECEPTION IN NEGOTIATION Your firm is teetering on the verge of insolvency. If this deal doesn't go through, you may have to trade in your Lexus for a LeBaron. It's easy...

Andrx Maneuvers Generic Markets And Still Manages To Crack A Smile.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Gloria Lau, Investor's Daily The generic drug business is rarely a pretty sight. More often than not, within a month after a generic drug maker files for regulatory approval of medications, the makers of the original brand-name...

Road Bikes Ride A Comeback With Boomers.
May 3, 2000... Byline: James Peter Rubin, Investor's Daily Mountain bikes captivated the bicycling world in the 1980s and 1990s, sendingroad bikes on a downward slope to obscurity. The thin-tired bikes made popularby the Tour de France make up less than...

When Stock Market Corrects, IPOs Crumble.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Christina Wise, Investor's Daily Catching an IPO on its debut isn't the easy path to profits it was a few months ago. The Nasdaq's recent convulsions have made initial public offerings anything but a sure bet. Since the market...

Builder Warren A. Bechtel - Drive To Learn Laid Foundation For One Of The Biggest Construction Firms.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Curt Schleier, Investor's Daily Warren A. Bechtel didn't worry about the past. The future, he said, is the only place he needed to look. Bechtel almost lost his family farm in 1898, whenfalling beef and corn prices hit farmers hard....

Reformer Dorothea Dix - Her Resolve Vastly Improved Care For The Mentally Ill.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Susan Vaughn, Investor's Daily Dorothea Dix hid her shock and anger as she peered into a jail cell in March 1841 at two shivering, barely clothed women. The women were mentally ill paupers who had no families to take care of them....

Supply Questions Have Investors Stepping On The Gas; Corn Pops.
May 3, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Gasoline futures jumped 6 percent Tuesday on the New York Mercantile Exchangeamid concerns about dwindling supplies just ahead of the summer driving season. The gasoline rally also pulled crude oil prices...

Computers Made Plain - Law Of The Land Aims To Guard Youngsters As They Surf The Web.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Russell Shaw, Investor's Daily Whether it's the suspect caller, or a Web site wishing to collect family information from children so it can sell it to third-party telemarketers, children are vulnerable to strangers. Recognizing...

AT&T's Move To Cable, Net Still Tangled Up - The longtime long-distanceleader says sales growth for consumer telephone service is slowing faster than expected.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause, Investor's Daily With his juggling act at AT&T Corp. in full swing, Chief Executive Mike Armstrong dropped a ball Tuesday. No, make that a bombshell, judging by Wall Street's reaction. AT&T shares plunged after...

U.K. Sets A Costly Tone For Coming Wireless Wars.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause, Investor's Daily At first blush, it might appear that the winners were losers in the U.K.'s recent auction of wireless phone licenses needed to operate Internet-ready networks. The popular view of people in the...

Apple's iMac Worms Its Way Into Part Of Windows Market.
May 3, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Apple Snags More Windows Converts Q&A with Fred Anderson Apple Computer Inc.Chief financial officer 55 years old B.A., economics, Whittier College; MBA, UCLA By Nick Turner Investor's Business Daily Everyone...

SOFTWARE - Oracle Uses TV To Reach Fellow 'Geeks'.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Matthew Benjamin, Investor's Daily In a small TV studio at Oracle Corp.'s Silicon Valley headquarters, EToys Inc. engineer Ansel Teng and Oracle marketing executive Jeremy Burton mug for the cameras as they chat about Java...

E-COMMERCE - Heard Of Big Blue? How About Mid Blue?
May 3, 2000... Byline: Doug Tsuruoka, Investor's Daily IBM Corp. thinks the best way to take a new market is by seizing the middle ground. IBM's betting that so-called midmarket customers will be a big source of business for electronic-business...

Disney, Time Warner Reach Temporary Truce - ABC Will Return To The Dial In Time Warner Cable Markets.
May 3, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Time Warner agreed Tuesday to return ABC to its cable systems, at least temporarily bringing "Good Morning America" and "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire"back to the 3.5 million customers who had the channel...

Assets Of World Rich To Hit $ 44.9 Trillion By '04, Study Predicts.
May 3, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily The wealth of "high net-worth individuals" is set to leap by an annual 12% to $ 44.9 trillion by 2004, with technology windfalls pushing more people into the"ultrarich" category, a Merrill Lynch and Gemini...

Long-Bond Investors Don't Like Latest View: Much Higher Rates.
May 3, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily U.S. Treasuries ended mixed Tuesday after news of a jump in new- home sales in March reminded the market that the Federal Reserve would have to tighten credit further to slow the economy's growth. Prices spent...

Pulse Of Economy Remains Strong As Home Sales, Leading Index Rise Fed's five rate hikes fail to slow economy's pace, so analysts now expect more-aggressive moves.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Jim Christie, Investor's Daily Interest rates may be rising, but new-home buyers remain unfazed, home sales data showed Tuesday. In another sign the economy is powering ahead despite higher rates, a key barometer of future economic...

Economist Anderson On 'Green' Capitalism.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver, Investor's Daily Does economic growth inevitably entail environmental destruction? Far from it, say many economists. They say the best thing for the environment is to havea thriving economy. IBD spoke to Terry L....

The Real Cultists: Hollywood's Spin On '70s Is Childish, Clumsy And Smug.
May 3, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Like most Americans, you may think of Billy Graham as a revered and responsible religious figure, but thank goodness some of Hollywood's hippest TVproducers know better. They suggest Graham is a dangerous cult...

China's Bid For Great-Power Status Threatens Asia's Security Balance.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Douglas Austin, Investor's Daily Is China about to launch its biggest military exercises since 1996, includingtest-firing missiles toward Taiwan? Skeptics describe recent saber-rattling asmerely Beijing's warning to Taiwan's newly...

HOLD HEARINGS NOW.
May 3, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily This public dithering seems to have been aided by George Bush. The New York Daily News said Saturday that Bush campaign official Joe Allbaugh told Senate Republicans last week that Bush wanted no hearings...

DON'T HIT THE PANIC BUTTON.
May 3, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has a hard-earned reputation as an inflation fighter. He may feel now as if his reputation is on the line. After all, the economy has grown on average by over 6% for three straight...

Sellitto Steers Berger Growth To Rebound - Like The Good Old Days, Fund Again Outperforms The S&P 500.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Paul Katzeff, Investor's Daily A comeback story is under way at Berger Funds. It's led by flagship $ 1.8 billion Berger Growth Fund. The fund's average annual return was less than halfthe S&P 500's 24% from 1994 through 1998. But...

TIPS Funds Starting To Look Competitive - Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities Have Fueled 5% Returns.
May 3, 2000... Byline: Claire Mencke, Investor's Daily Yields you can sink your teeth into, and no risk - not even from inflation: What are these investments? They're Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, orTIPS. Some fund investors certainly have...

Artist M.C. Escher - He Drew Upon Science And Mathematics As Inspiration For His Works.
May 4, 2000... Byline: Grove Pashley, Investor's Daily Amateur mathematician Maurits Cornelius Escher wanted to share his ideas of infinity and the nature of perception. But he knew not everyone would understand complex math equations. So he relied on an...

Prime Minister Golda Meir - Her Dedication Helped Establish Modern Israel.
May 4, 2000... Byline: Alison Young, Investor's Daily Two-year-old Goldie Mabovitch stood in frontof her home in Kiev in czarist Russia, hand-in-hand with another girl her age, watching their fathers hastily nail pieces of wood over the front door. Even...

Computers Made Plain - As Knowledge Of Old DOS Fades, So Do Bare-Bones Shell Net Accounts.
May 4, 2000... Byline: David Noack, Investor's Daily When Gary Frazier taught an Internet class three years ago at his local community college, he got a rude awakening. Students didn't want to know about the old Internet, where users typed in arcane...

Big Software's A Big Shoehorn For Big Blue - IBM forms partnerships with software makers to give it an entry to sell more products to banks, brokerages, insurers.
May 4, 2000... Byline: Matthew Benjamin, Investor's Daily Sell them on the software, and then sell them everything else. That's the gist of an IBM Corp. strategy that's kicking into high gear. Over the last week, the company has announced deals with four...