Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Zhong, sitting in a Nanjing tea shop near the university at which he is studying. He lights a cigarette from the butt he has finished and looks around at the students at the other tables. Most are 10 years younger, from more privileged backgrounds. When Zhong was their age, in the late 1980s, there was no way a peasant's son from rural China could have contemplated hopping between jobs, getting an education and applying for a job with "Goldman Sachs or Citicorp," as Zhong hopes to do. Today, with the economic reform being pressed by Zhu Rongji...
...addition to statistics about the number of unique visitors to Harvard's Web site, RelevantKnowledge obtained information about the demographics of the visitors concerning age, gender, houselhold size, region, place of access, education and professional status, Ward said...
...tragic ironies of our celebrity age that our puffing-up of the famous in their lifetime is surpassed only by media frenzy that follows their death. While those celebrities who die young--Diana, JFK, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain--remain forever young and full of promise in the public imagination, tragically, they have already left the stage when the applause for them is loudest and the spotlight brightest...
...average manager's age still stands at a respectable 48, according to fund researcher Morningstar, but new technologies and new demand for investments have created a bull market for fund managers. And a deep resume isn't necessarily a requirement for the job. Grech, for instance, has been out of business school for two years, joining precocious stock pickers like his rising Fidelity colleague Erin Sullivan, also 28. While few shops actually give newbies a chance to run a fund as early as Fidelity, it's not too hard to find a fund at any firm that's watched over...
Another Young Turk, Christine Baxter, 29, thinks her age helps her relate to young tech entrepreneurs she tracks as manager of the $1.2 billion PBHG Emerging Growth Fund. "This is an incredibly taxing business [that requires so much] energy," says Baxter, a philosophy major who has averaged a 20% return since 1995. Says Kurt Brower, author of Mutual Fund Mastery: "It's like surgeons--eventually they have to operate." Investors can only hope that if things go bad, these green managers can stop the bleeding...