Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these days, he concedes, the numbers don't matter anymore. "You can't fight a bull market like this," he says, because it comes out of "a perfect economic situation" -- earnings have been OK, interest rates are still low, and Asia's problems have been "shoved to the background," he says. "You have to respect what's going on." Investors get the same advice as ever: Jumping into stocks whole hog is still a dangerous proposition, even if the pickings look easy...
...were welcomed into Walker Hall by the sound of slack key music strumming in the background. Tropical flowers adorned the walls, people in bright aloha shirts darted around excitedly, and the familiar smell of kalua pig wafted through the room. Kalua pig, the centerpiece of every luau, is fire-roasted on red-hot stones in an underground oven called an imu. I assume that the organizers couldn't pull off the red-hot stones in the frozen MIT ground, but the pig tasted delicious nonetheless. Soon after my arrival there was the inevitable rush to the serving table, replete with...
When we finally re-entered the building, Bob Marley was still playing in the background and the food was still looking good. By the end of the night I had concluded happily that the success of the luau was a testament to Hawaiian culture itself and I found myself holding onto warm ties I had made that evening, only regretting the frosty March climate outside...
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Ghani says such efforts have increased thenumber of applicants over the last two years.While one's ethnic background is not the primaryconsideration when determining which candidatesare the ideal tour guides, the Crimson Key Societynow has a more diverse pool from which to chooseits members...