Investor's Business Daily articles from November 2000

Investor's Business Daily archives from November 2000

IBDMAIL.(A)
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The Economy.(A)
November 30, 2000... Heating oil prices still climbing; stockpiles hold at scanty levels The national average rose 1.9 cents to $1.564 a gallon in the week ended Monday. That's a huge 51% above a year ago. Retail heating oil prices in New England, which...

WASHINGTON.(A)
November 30, 2000... Fla. legislature continues debate over special session on election The state's Republican-led legislature resumed talks on whether to call a special session to select the state's decisive 25 electors. A special joint committee of...

WW.(A)
November 30, 2000... U.S., Yemen reach pact on probe of terrorist bombing of U.S. ship The U.S. signed an agreement with Yemen on how to proceed with investigating the bombing of a U.S. warship in Aden, following reports of U.S. demands for more access....

10SECRETS.(A)
November 30, 2000... Giving unusual but useful gifts during the Christmas and Hanukkah seasons can be a challenge. If you know where to look, however, you can find them. A review of catalog and Web sites turned up the following short list of creative...

Photographer Gordon Parks His Optimism And Enthusiasm Have Helped Him Achieve Excellence.(A)(Leaders & Success)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Curt Schleier Investor's Business Daily Gordon Parks believes in fighting - but not in the way most might expect. He battles with a camera and words. As a photojournalist for Life magazine, Parks spent several hours...

Vietnam War Hero Jeremiah Denton His Focus Helped Him Survive With Honor.(A)(Leaders & Success)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Michael Richman Investor's Business Daily The North Vietnamese could beat Jeremiah Denton Jr. viciously. They could torture him, confining him to tiny cells and starving him. But they couldn't make him betray his country....

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
November 30, 2000... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON GIVING It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35 ON CREATIVITY The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could...

Growth Is Slowest In Four Years As Imports Rise, Inventories Cool.(A)(GDP)
November 30, 2000... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy grew at its slowest pace in four years during the third quarter, the government said Wednesday as it revised down an earlier estimate to reflect a worsening trade picture and less production than thought for...

Is GM Nearing Decision On Its Hughes Unit? Analyst Says Yes; Company Calls Report Speculation.(A)(GMH)
November 30, 2000... DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. on Wednesday declined to discuss whether it has suspended its stock buyback program to prepare for selling or spinning off its Hughes Electronics Corp. satellite-TV unit, as one analyst suggested. ...

Proven Winners Often Repeat Their Success.(A)(Investor's Corner)
November 30, 2000... By David Saito-Chung Investor's Business Daily When fishing for superior stocks, don't waste time angling for cheap, beaten-down names. Top growth investors eye stocks that made strong price gains in the past. As the company's...

Internet & Technology.(A)
November 30, 2000... By Brian Deagon Investor's Business Daily Historians say the first computer virus was created in Pakistan in 1986. The virus, called Brain, wasn't acknowledged by computer scientists for a year. Compare that with the Love Bug...

Tech Bits.(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 30, 2000... IBM Says Faster Encryption Will Boost Security For Devices IBM Corp. has developed an algorithm, or mathematical process, that helps computers encrypt and authenticate data in one step. Encryption scrambles data so they can't be...

TECHNOLOGY JARGON Tech Industry Brews New Batch Of Acronym Soup.(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 30, 2000... Byline: J. Bonasia Investor's Business Daily Can't tell a WAN from a WAP? Can't explain the difference between a MAN and a man? Wouldn't know an ISV if it hit you in the face? Well, don't worry. You're not alone. The...

INTERNET ACCESS Juno Online Boosts Speedy Net Service With Comcast Pact.(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Pete Barlas Investor's Business Daily The door to speedy Internet access is finally wide open, and consumer Internet service providers are rushing in. Juno Online Services Inc. on Wednesday became the latest ISP to...

D.(A)
November 30, 2000... IBD SmartSelectTM CORPORATE RATINGS: .Earnings Per Share Rating (fourth from right) measures each company's short- and long-term earnings growth. Results are from 1 to 99, with 99 being best. .Relative Price Strength Rating (third...

Verizon Now Won't Buy NorthPoint.(A)(TECH2-WIRE)
November 30, 2000... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Local phone company Verizon Communications said on Wednesday it canceled its $800 million agreement to buy a 55% stake in NorthPoint Communications Group Inc. due to the deterioration in the high-speedInternet access...

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Remember The 500-Channel TV? It's Here.(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 30, 2000... LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Digital TV and its broadband possibilities - long confined to the spin of corporate meeting rooms - are finally breaking out intoliving rooms as new services roll out of the box. The cable TV industry has been...

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Cyberspace Could Be Risky Frontier This Holiday Season.(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Donna Howell Investor's Business Daily Watch out, says Robert Landes. This holiday season could become a minefield foronline shoppers. Internet glitches could be the Grinch that steals Christmas, says Landes, an online...

HPBUZZ-IT.(A)
November 30, 2000... Buzzword Server: A computer that dishes out data and software to other computers tied into a network. Can assume a number of roles. File servers simply store files for networked users. Database servers can manage large banks of...

After Six Rate Hikes, Big Oil Surge, Is U.S. Economy Finally Rolling Over?(A)(Company In The News)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver Investor's Business Daily Over the course of the last year, the U.S. economy has gone from white-hot to red-hot to merely lukewarm. Now some economists are starting to ask whether it could turn stone cold next...

More Wireless Devices Mean One Thing: More Wireless Networks Products are flooding the market to help people who want to send e-mail, surf Web sites on the go.(A)(TECH3-CMP)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Paul Korzeniowski Investor's Business Daily At the Penticon Lakeside Resort and Casino in Penticon, British Columbia, guests don't just play blackjack on the casino floor. They also surf the Net. In June 2000, the hotel...

Business-To-Business Moving Across Pond.(A)(TECH3-QA)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Murray Coleman Investor's Business Daily Business-to-business e-commerce trade is just starting to take off around the world. But most corporate buying and selling via the Internet is taking place among business partners...

FINANCIAL SERVICES Online Stock Trading Finally Gaining Steam In Europe.(A)(TECH3-WIRE)
November 30, 2000... LONDON (Reuters) - Europeans caught the online share-dealing bug this year, fueling explosive growth for retail brokers across the Continent. Germans have been the most fanatical, accounting for more than half of the European online...

COMPUTERS HP Takes Aim At Rival Sun With New Midrange Server.(A)(TECH3_INTER)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Sheila Riley By Sheila Riley Investor's Business Daily Hewlett-Packard Co. took a new jab at major server rival Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday, unveiling a low-end machine that it says is faster, cheaper and hasmore...

Can 'Fantasies In Chrome' Turn Real Profits?(A)(The New America)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Paul Eisenstein Investor's Business Daily Looking a lot like a modernday dune buggy, the Chevrolet Borrego will make its debut at the Detroit auto show in mid-January. But if you like what you see, don't go rushing to...

COVENTRY HEALTH CARE INC. /Bethesda, Maryland Sick Health Care Plans Are No Problem Here.(A)(The New America)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Alison Young Investor's Business Daily You could say Coventry Health Care Inc. wants to nurse sick medical plans back to health. The Bethesda, Md.-based managed care company is capitalizing on a recent trend that has...

NPS PHARMACEUTICALS INC. /Salt Lake City, Utah Drugmaker Enters Final Phase Of Treatment.(A)(The New America)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Gloria Lau Investor's Business Daily Think of the grandmother who wobbles while walking with a cane because her legsare weakened by bone loss. In the next few years, she may get her first chanceto reverse her disease. ...

Some Calling For Ouster Of Daimler's Chief Germans Say Daimler Overpaid For Crasher - And Is Paying Now.(A)(DAIMLER)
November 30, 2000... From IBD News Services FRANKFURT, Germany - Pressure on DaimlerChrysler Chief Juergen Schrempp mountedon both sides of the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday after German shareholders urged him to quit over losses at Chrysler. Criticism in...

Gateway Confirms Sales And Profits Won't Meet Views.(A)(GATEWAY)
November 30, 2000... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gateway Inc. on Wednesday confirmed analyst fears that fourth-quarter sales would be less than hoped. It shares fell nearly 5% after a Merrill Lynch analyst reduced his sales estimate for the personal computer maker's...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
November 30, 2000... The Real Most Active Blue chips shined but techs and oil names bled Wednesday. The Dow charged ahead 121.53 points, or 1.2%, to 10,629.11, more than recoupingTuesday's 38-point decline. The S&P 500 gained 0.4%, but the S&P MidCap 400...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 1-5)
November 30, 2000... Could Once-Hot Economy Turn Stone-Cold In 2001? 1Gross domestic product rose at its slowest pace in nearly four years in the third quarter. Retail sales and corporate profits also slipped. Banks are reluctant to lend to businesses....

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
November 30, 2000... Johnson & Johnson broke out of a five-month flat base on brisk trade Tuesday, and extended its gains Wednesday. It's still within 5% of its pivot point of 98, and is 6% off its all-time high. The diversified health care product maker and...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
November 30, 2000... THE BIG PICTURE A decent session for the Dow industrial average on Wednesday diverted some attention from the ailing Nasdaq. As on Tuesday, investors looked for shelter in blue chips, medicals and other defensive issues. The Dow was...

Barons And Bandits: The Media Suddenly Worry About Comity As They Assist Gore.(A)(View Point)
November 30, 2000... By Merrill Matthews Jr. Even though George Bush has been certified the winner of Florida's 25 electoralvotes, the attempt to steal the presidential election continues. The group that has had the greatest success stealing the election...

Flood Of Suits Muddies Florida Vote As Constitution's Clock Keeps Ticking.(A)(National Issue)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Daniel J. Murphy and Joseph Guinto Investor's Business Daily The U.S. Supreme Court is the end of the road for so many causes. But not this one. Aides to Al Gore have hinted for days that Gore would concede if the high...

HEADING OFF RECESSION.(A)(Editorial)
November 30, 2000... Not too long ago, the economy wasn't an issue. "The greatest economy in a generation," as President Clinton called it, was spewing out jobs and growth ata dizzying pace. Now the Clinton-Gore bear market is on us, and things are grim. ...

STILL MOSTLY MOUTHPIECES.(A)(Editorial)
November 30, 2000... The elite media's tolerance for Al Gore's cynical crusade to reverse George Bush's win shows that most journalists are still operating with the same bias they had in the campaign. Yet they still try to hide behind a facade of objectivity,...

Key Fund Holdings.(B)
November 30, 2000... Key Fund Holdings / Pfizer was a top 10 holding of Merrill Lynch Fundamental Growth and Franklin Dynatech funds as of the latest reporting period. The stockbounced off a low of 39 5/8 on Sept. 9, going as high as 45 3/8 on Nov. 8. It is now...

Investors Still Feeding Funds Despite Slump Big Groups Report Flat Sales; October Saw $19 Bil In Net Inflows.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
November 30, 2000... Byline: Dan Moreau Investor's Business Daily Investors tapped the brakes on their purchases of stock funds in November amid the rocky stock market, according to several fund groups. The slowdown came as the Nasdaq dropped 20% for...

Where Are Fund Managers Seeking Shelter? Havens Include Cash And Residential/Commercial Building.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
November 30, 2000... By Peter McKenna Investor's Business Daily With so many segments of the tech sector under water, which ones are fund managers turning to for performance? You can check your fund's quarterly report or ask the fund directly. ...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
November 30, 2000... The Real Most Active The Nasdaq got shoved down once again as investors continued punishing techs Wednesday. The composite lost 28.05 points, or 1%, to 2706.93. The Nasdaq 100 fell 0.7% to2603.14. Volume rose 7% to 2.05 billion...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 6-10)
November 30, 2000... Gateway Lowers Forecasts After A Tough Thanksgiving 6After markets closed, the big PC maker cut its 2001 earnings estimate from $2.28 a share to $1.89. It now expects fourth-quarter earnings of 37 cents, well below views of 62 cents....

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
November 30, 2000... After making a 147% upward move from April 5 to Sept. 29, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has formed an eight-and-a-half week base. It stands 15% off its Sept. 29 high. The Israeli-based firm develops drugs, focusing on treatment for...

Oil Rises As NatGas Stocks Fall; Weak Exports Send Wheat Lower.(B)(FUTURES)
November 30, 2000... By Reuters U.S. crude oil futures soared on Wednesday, buoyed by news of a sharp decline in natural gas stocks, while wheat prices slumped amid sluggish exports. F U T U R E S In other commodity markets, cocoa prices were higher...

As The Slowing Expansion Goes, So Goes Speeding Treasury Market.(B)(Credit Markets)
November 30, 2000... By Reuters U.S. Treasuries extended a stunning three-week rally Wednesday after the government said the economy grew at its slowest pace in four years in the thirdquarter and technology stocks wilted to year lows. Evidence a record...

Business News.(A)(After The Close)
November 30, 2000... ALTERA cut its fourth-quarter sales forecast to $395 million, flat with the third quarter. It cited weak November sales. The chipmaker fell 24% to 19 3/4 after hours. HOT TOPIC'S same-store November sales rose 17%. The apparel retailer...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
November 30, 2000... Time Warner balks at demands to share content with AOL rivals To get approval for a merger with America Online, Time Warner must make its news and entertainment content available to AOL rivals, FTC officials say. The firms are ready...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
November 30, 2000... Comcast to offer Juno's service Comcast Cable Communications will offer Juno Online Services' Internet service over its cable system. Comcast said trials of the service, called Juno Express,will start in 2001 in Philadelphia. Juno is the...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
November 30, 2000... DaimlerChrysler investors revolt, want the chief executive to leave Ekkehard Wenger, a leader of a German group of small shareholders, will call for the dismissal of CEO Juergen Schrempp and supervisory board head Hilmar Kopper. His...

The Economy.(A)
November 29, 2000... Holiday shopping opens strong; chain-store sales notch big gain The BTM-UBSW chain-store index jumped 1.1% in the week ended Saturday. That's a 5.1% year-over-year rise and compares with a 4.7% gain the week before. Shoppers packed stores on...

WASHINGTON.(A)
November 29, 2000... Public policy doesn't relieve firms from arbitrator's edicts, says court The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a company can be forced to comply witha labor arbitrator's decision to reinstate employees who have tested positive for...

WW.(A)
November 29, 2000... Canada's Liberal majority grows, but conservatives gain out west Prime Minister Jean Chretien's Liberal Party won its third-straight majority government. The Liberals gained seats, improving from 161 to 173 of the 301 in the House of...

10SECRETS.(A)
November 29, 2000... Focusing leads to dreams achieved, write business researchers Clive Gilson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes in their book, "Peak Performance: Business Lessons from the World's Top Sports Organizations," published this month by Texere...

Organizer Rigoberta Menchu Belief In Her Cause Kept Her Going In Work To Bring Peace To A Nation.(A)(Leaders & Success)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Amy Reynolds Alexander Investor's Business Daily While many in her country of Guatemala fought a civil war using guns and knives, Rigoberta Menchu fought for peace using words. One five-minute meeting at a time, one...

Nortel's John Roth Stuck To His Vision To Move His Firm Into The Future.(A)(Leaders & Success)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Mike Angell Investor's Business Daily John Roth wanted to innovate. Northern Electric, one of Canada's biggest electronics companies, offered the new engineering graduate a manager's job in 1964 building other people's...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
November 29, 2000... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON GOALS Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. Sir Francis Bacon, essayist, statesman ON ANALYZING CONCERNS More often than not, most of our worries...

Internet & Technology.(A)
November 29, 2000... By Reinhardt Krause Investor's Business Daily All of Europe's big phone companies look the same to U.S. investors: ugly. Even Vodafone Group PLC, the one-time Adonis of wireless service providers, hasa few warts. Shares of...

Tech Bits.(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 29, 2000... Living In FAST Times: 3Com's Survival Guide Eric Benhamou is into speed. That is, the chief executive of 3Com Corp. is extolling a FAST philosophy. Speaking at a recent round table that his networking company sponsored, Benhamou said...

SEMICONDUCTORS Did AMD Ship Some Bad Flash Chips To Siemens?(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 29, 2000... Byline: James DeTar Investor's Business Daily Did chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. ship defective flash memory chips to Siemens AG earlier this year? It's not certain, but the signs point that way. Pinning down...

Well-Formed Handles Complete Sound Bases.(A)(Investor's Corner)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Jonah Keri Investor's Business Daily You've just spotted what looks like a great stock. Its sales and earnings are stellar. It's a leader in a hot industry. It's formed a seemingly beautiful base. Sure enough, the stock...

E-COMMERCE Online Shoppers Bring Good Cheer To E-Retail Sites.(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Brian Deagon Investor's Business Daily Online retailers received good news this week, with several reports showing a healthy e-retail sector heading into the holiday shopping season. The Commerce Department reported that...

BIOTECHNOLOGY Range Of Tech Industries Reaps Genome Fruit.(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 29, 2000... HINXTON, England (Reuters) - The gene machines at the Sanger Center near Cambridge, responsible for mapping a third of the human genome, are still whirring night and day. Never mind that a working draft of the 3.1 billion letters in the...

TECH GLOSSARY Nascent Wireless Industry Already Has Own Language.(A)(Internet & Technology)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Peter Benesh Investor's Business Daily Wireless. Simple word, simple concept. Right, but what do all those other termsand acronyms mean? "All technology fields create their own language," said Carl Weisman, author of"The...

Web Makes It Easier Than Ever To Be Charitable Over Holidays Click-to-donate and shop-to-donate sites let you give to causes without pinching funds.(A)(Computers Made Plain3)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Lynn Walford Investor's Business Daily As the season of giving approaches, the Web makes it easier than ever to be charitable. In addition to charity sites that accept cash donations, there are click-to-donate and...

Start-Up Exult Taps The Web To Manage Human Resources.(A)(QA3)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Brian Deagon Investor's Business Daily Exult Inc., a 2-year-old start-up, caught the market by surprise last month when it won a 10-year, $1.1 billion contract to manage the human resources operations of Bank of America, the...

INFORMATION SOCIETY Young Entrepreneurs, Even In Online World.(A)(TEK3)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Katharine Stalter Investor's Business Daily Nowadays, 20-something dot-com entrepreneurs are a dime a dozen. But when Ruchit Shah and Richard Hecker meet a company founder in that age group, they can use an odd term -...

AT&T Taps New Chief For Core Phone Operations.(A)(ATT)
November 29, 2000... NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T Corp. announced Tuesday the appointment of a president torun its core telephone and network service operations while chief executive C.Michael Armstrong focuses on the company's sweeping breakup plan. David Dorman,...

CMGI's Chairman Hits Media Over Coverage Of His Options.(A)(CMGI)
November 29, 2000... BOSTON (Reuters) - CMGI Inc. Chairman David Wetherell, last year's Internet visionary, on Tuesday said he has not sold a single share of the company's stock in more than a year despite a massive sell-off on Wall Street. In a letter to...

7 Million Bushels Of Corn May Have StarLink Mixed In.(A)(STARLINK)
November 29, 2000... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 7 million bushels of this year's U.S. corn crop would be affected if the Environmental Protection Agency lifts its ban on StarLink bio-corn in the human food supply, an Agriculture Department official said...

Small In Branches, Rich In Assets, Northern Trust Pampers Well-Heeled.(A)(Company In The News)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Steve Watkins Investor's Business Daily You won't see its banks on many street corners, but Northern Trust Corp. still cuts a wide swath through the financial services industry. The Chicago-based banking company manages...

THE BISYS GROUP INC. /Little Falls, New Jersey Outsource Firm Has A Simple Plan For Growth.(A)(The New America)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Tom Gray Investor's Business Daily The Bisys Group Inc. might be a tough company to describe, but analysts say itsfinancial story is simple: steady growth on the top and bottom lines. "They're well-run, they're focused,...

ONESOURCE INFORMATION SERVICES / Concord, Mass. Well-Informed Clients Are This Firm's Forte.(A)(The New America)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Chris Woodard Investor's Business Daily Faced with shorter product cycles and increasingly fierce competition, companies today need fast, reliable business intelligence to keep their employees in the know. OneSource...

DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC. /Orlando, Florida Restaurateur Makes Its Mark In Casual Style.(A)(The New America)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Alan R. Elliott Investor's Business Daily In tennis, it's Wimbledon. In country music, it's the Grand Ole Opry. The proving ground in the casual-dining business? International Drive in Orlando, Fla. "If you know...

Consumer Confidence Lowest In A Year.(A)(CONSUME)
November 29, 2000... NEW YORK (AP) - Consumer confidence fell in November to its lowest level in more than a year, another sign the economy is slowing and that consumers are becoming increasingly worried about the unresolved presidential election, the stock...

FLU-TEXT.(A)
November 29, 2000... Byline: James Peter Rubin Investor's Business Daily There's no guarantee against coming down with influenza, the debilitating and often deadly viral infection known more commonly as the flu. And this year, many people are fretting...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
November 29, 2000... The Real Most Active New York stocks backtracked from early gains to end lower Tuesday. The Dow industrials, up 0.6% intraday, lost 38.49, or 0.4%, to 10,507.58. The S&P 500 slipped 1% and the Value Line index 1.9%. Volume grew 12%...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
November 29, 2000... Pfizer broke out of a yearlong base in the week ended April 7. The stock rolledup 33% to 49 1/4, just shy of its all-time high around 50 seen in April 1999. The stock has been building a new base on top of its old base the past four months....

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
November 29, 2000... THE BIG PICTURE The Nasdaq's bear market burrowed a little deeper Tuesday. Investors dumped technology stocks as the disputed presidential election dragged on, the economy showed fresh signs of slowing and Wall Street downgraded...

Is This Any Way To Run An Election? Florida Vote Brings A Swarm Of Suits.(A)(National Issue)
November 29, 2000... Byline: Benjamin Kepple||||and Douglas Austin Investor's Business Daily It's the first presidential election in the nation's history to be contested incourt. And boy, is it being contested. Lawyers for both sides are fighting a...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 1-5)
November 29, 2000... Justices Get Final Pleas; Gore Seeks 7-Day Recount 1In final written arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court, George Bush asked justices for "legal finality" in the dispute by overturning the Florida SupremeCourt decision to allow manual...

THE DISMAYING 'LOGIC' OF GORE.(A)(Editorial)
November 29, 2000... Byline: By Normal people, after a third strike, return to the dugout. Al Gore charges the pitching mound. He's lost three times in Florida. The voters have spoken. He just won't listen. "If the people do not in the end choose me, so...

CLINTON'S MIDNIGHT RUSH.(A)(Editorial)
November 29, 2000... There are 26 shopping days until Christmas. But at the White House, the magic number is 52. That's how many days are left for the administration to pile moreregulations on business. So much for gridlock in Washington. With the likelihood...

Key Fund Holdings.(B)
November 29, 2000... Key Fund Holdings / Kerr-McGee was a top new buy of American Century Vista Fundin the latest reporting period. The stock is 8% off its Oct. 12 high of 71 3/16 and has been building a flat base for six weeks. The company's earnings rose 235%...