Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand-to-hand combat. I tried to make stands on stocks big and small, only to be overwhelmed by huge sellers. Take General Electric: on Friday I bought shares at $75, then $74 and then $73, and then I doubled down at $72 with 18 minutes left before the bell. For a minute, I wanted a hemlock cocktail, as it flashed on my screen that Microsoft had just overtaken GE as the world's largest capitalization stock. But then the mischievous GE seller disappeared. The stock rose right back to 75 7/8, putting the company's total market value back...
...Taft, Calif. (pop. 5,000)! In 1995 L.A. became "the nation's capital of racial (539 crimes) and sexual orientation (338 crimes) violence"! And the recent rout of fires, riots and earthquakes should, by statistical rights, only increase. Furiously researched and slashingly argued, this book is a 30-bell alarm by L.A. obsessive Davis (City of Quartz), who contends that most of the "acts of God" that have wrought such destruction in that city are, in fact, the results of greed, myopia and Machiavellian politicking. Upholders of the status quo will take issue with Davis' provocations, but the facts...
...album's central topic is love. Not the sappy sop of pop ditties, but a tough, confessional examination of relationships such as cultural critic Bell Hooks describes in her book Talking Back: Thinking Feminist/Thinking Black: "Love can be and is an important source of empowerment...to face the ways in which we dominate and are dominated... To change our actions, we need a mediating force to sustain us." Hill's songs try to be that mediating force. On Ex-Factor, she examines her own attraction to psychologically hurtful men. "Who I have to be/ To get some reciprocity?" she pleads...
...being punished. "Even in jail, kids want their candy bars, their pillows and pajamas," says lawyer Mones. "They wonder where their cheeseburgers are." It's also crucial to realize these kids will get out someday. "The important thing to do is not to trash these kids," says Carl Bell, "with disregard for their need for attachment, school, mental health evaluation and support...
...PHILADELPHIA (seeking either convention): A miniature Liberty Bell; Tastykakes; a Flyers jersey...