He read the tales of how bad the Dell was doing and how Michael Dell could not turn the company around under the white-hot scrutiny and short term demands of the public markets.

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He was wearing white chinos and a shiny black short-sleeved shirt, decorated with fluorescent images of vintage hot rods.

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There are articles that provide advice on which investments will be hot depending on who wins the election, so if you are focused on the short-term for your investing, you might want to look for suggestions about what to invest in under a Democratic presidency, but you may not need to.

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Given the hysterical business headlines of the time, issuers also saw a hot IPO as a "branding event, " but any benefit from such branding was extremely short-lived, Hambrecht says.

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The company supplies components for Apple Computer's iMac, a hot seller in the U.S. But Bernard Tan of Merrill Lynch has downgraded NatSteel's short-term rating to neutral, although he still has a long-term buy on it.

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And that's a problem--the temptation to hook up a hot name with most any product under the sun, while profitable in the short run, only leads to a dilution of the athlete's brand name after a while, experts say.

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While only slightly slower, the King Air 250 requires about one-third less runway at sea level than most small-cabin jets, and it is particularly adept at short, rugged or unimproved airstrips and high and hot mountain airports, which allows for greater access to hundreds of additional small communities.

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