Word: basic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest beneficiary of perpetual bullishness, is preaching caution. At the industry's recent annual conference, which I attended, the theme was "building investor knowledge." The effort smacks of self-interest; the subtitle might well have been "how fund companies can avoid blame when the bubble bursts." But the basic message--that the market cannot keep going straight up--is a good one. Any stocks or stock funds that you can't hold through a 2000-point Dow slide you should sell...
...Stealth bombers, fuel barges, skyscrapers. Also those creepy Teletubbies creatures. He'd get a choice of weapons, as well, from small-arms fire and hand grenades to Stinger missiles and tactical nukes. This game--with the latest three-dimensional effects and Surround Sound--would endlessly satisfy an unattractive but basic urge...
...bronze or carving in wood; and this tradition of the open constructed form rather than solid mass arose from one small guitar that Picasso snipped and joined out of tin in 1912. If collage--the gluing of previously unrelated things and images on a flat surface--became a basic mode of modern art, that too was due to Picasso's Cubist collaboration with Braque. He was never a member of the Surrealist group, but in the 1920s and '30s he produced some of the scariest distortions of the human body and the most violently irrational, erotic images of Eros...
...revised bill would have had all the same implementation difficulties without addressing the basic question lying behind the original bill," he says...
...interview last month, Rowe said one of his proudest accomplishments at Harvard has been the founding of the Science Coalition, an alliance of universities aimed at increasing funding for basic science research...