Word: baskets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...detonation, the Trading Goddess rings and whispers those three little words: "Don't blow it." She was alluding to 10 years ago, when I failed to buy in the last decade's most famous October buying opportunity. My toughest critic/guardian angel unflinchingly said, "Stand there with a bushel basket as stocks come in." What stocks? I wanted names. Too late. She was engrossed in a dot-to-dot with our three-year- old. "I'll leave something to you," she said, and the crystal ball went dark. I would only have a few minutes...
...touch," says Congressman Floyd Flake, a New York Democrat. "The next wave of the civil rights movement will be demand for choice in schools." All the same, when the House voted earlier this month to approve a Republican proposal for a $7 million voucher plan for Washington--a basket-case system where by some calculations 40% of the kids drop out before high school graduation--just one black member supported it, Oklahoma Republican J.C. Watts. The D.C. project, which offered up to $3,200 in tuition assistance apiece to 2,000 of the city's 78,000 public school students...
Winthrop House residents living in Gore Hall were awakened early yesterday morning because of a fire alarm set off by a burning mail basket outside room...
...produce a blurred image if your resume is faxed or electronically scanned. Use white or ecru paper with matching envelopes and paper for your cover letters. Don't use brightly-colored paper - it will overshadow your message, it faxes poorly, and is more likely to land in the waste basket...
...there's one thing he's learned from professional actors, it is that show business is "very iffy" and requires a lot of patience, drive and luck. "I'm not really putting my eggs in that basket--I'd rather be safe than sorry...