My neighbor is a pilot and constantly talks about the next few years that his company (jetblue) and others are buying up planes left and right.

After listening to Wachovia's quarterly conferrence call when they talked about Golden West and how it was helping their bottom line, I wanted another west coast mortgage company that was unknown.

My son has ADHD and celgene makes Ritalin LA along with cancer drugs.

Harris has a great management team in place and their business is not concentrated on one area within the communications industry.

I worked for Diamond Offshore for a few years. Diamond, Rowan, and Transocean all use Haliburton for so many needs. I wanted an oil stock in my portfolio and was leaning towards gsf (global santefe) but ultimately went with an oil services company instead.