Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continues to dominate every last one of these hierarchical, market-driven institutions? And where, one does begin to wonder, are some of those men who have thrived under this system, who were well fathered and are themselves wonderful fathers, who participate usefully in the world around them? Surely, if she already believes that she can learn much from looking outside the mainstream, these men are no less meaningful than the subjects she chose...
...Hotel, a room of his own, new friends--but it all seems like ashes to Frank: "New York was the city of my dreams but now I'm here the dreams are gone and it's not what I expected at all. I never thought I'd be going around a hotel lobby cleaning up after people and scouring toilet bowls in the lavatories...
...garden [BUSINESS, Sept. 13]. We wonder at the increases in cancer, birth defects, mental illness. And yet we slap 100% tariffs on the E.U. as a backlash for its being fussy about accepting food with firefly genes and zucchini viruses. Maybe we should listen to countries that have been around a thousand years longer than our tyronic republic. As for me, I think I'll have a glass of water for dinner. On second thought, I'll fast. JOSEPH BYRD Holland, Mich...
...which totaled 4.3 million in 1998, is expected to pass 20.3 million in 2003. And while the average online investor is 39, the average person investing with a traditional broker is 52. That age gap is what finally got to Merrill. Says Thomson: "We had to look around and ask, 'Are we going to inherit the children of our clients automatically, or are we going to have to put up our dukes and start fighting...
Alaska's oil fields at Prudhoe Bay lie beneath an area of awesome beauty, still pristine and fragile. But around 750 miles to the south lies Prince William Sound, the site of one of the world's worst oil-spill disasters a decade ago when the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and dumped 11 million gallons of syrupy crude, creating a 500-mi.-long oil slick. Since BP Amoco is the largest oil producer in the region, it's not surprising that environmental activists closely monitor its oil-exploration operations there. Last year Paul Wenman spent several weeks trudging around...