Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multibillion-dollar fight over welfare funding. The 1996 act guaranteed the states $16.4 billion in block grants annually. But with welfare rolls plunging around the country, much of that money has gone unspent--and congressional Republicans are talking about taking back at least $4 billion. That would be a "big mistake," Clinton declared last week in Chicago. He'd like to see the money spent on the millions of people "who could move from welfare to work if they had more training, if they had transportation, if they had child care...
...years and 180,000 driving miles later, and last month Schofield delivered to me the third of his creations. The first was a big, boxy Ford van that he built for me a couple of months after our first meeting, and after I'd spent half a dozen Sundays driving with him in the prototype through the streets of Springfield, testing out his technology and my reflexes. The noble beast, now retired, still stands in my driveway...
...epitome of pure speculation. On an earnings basis, after all, a company with no profit is as expensive at $20 a share as it is at $40. That's what makes Net stocks so confounding. Most lose money, and predicting when they'll turn a profit and how big that profit will be is sheer guesswork...
Since mid-April, the pessimists have been winning the valuation squabble. Amazon.com once boasting a market value twice that of Sears, is now about as big as the Sears tool department. Founder Jeff Bezos has seen $8 billion of his net worth evaporate in four months. Sure, he's still worth $5 billion, but the roller-coaster ride is taking a toll on less well-heeled entrepreneurs and investors...
...crawl out on a rickety catwalk over a beach in Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Below us, thousands of fur seals flop around in a frenzy. The 600-lb. bulls herd their harems to protect them from rival males emerging from the brisk waters of the Bering Sea. As the big males toss the 110-lb. females around like beach toys, my first thought is that male fur seals have not yet embraced feminism. Springer, though, has no time for such anthropomorphic musing. The Colorado State University scientist is there to retrieve dead pups, which he gingerly extracts from the seal...