Word: biked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Rogers finds such a hospitable environment, he gets very excited, parks his bike at the local exchange and buys a selection of stocks on the spot. These days Rogers is bullish on the darnedest places: Peru, Angola, Cameroon, and especially Botswana -- all seven of that country's stocks. Botswana has a stable currency, prosperous mines, rich natural resources, a 10% growth rate and no tribal conflicts to speak of, and the stock exchange is one desk in a banker's office. He likes New Zealand, which has cheap stocks and is starting to emerge from 10 years of depression...
When I first saw Mass. Ave.'s lightposts bedecked with colorful banners, I admit that my first thought was, "It's that annual bike race. I thought I missed it." But no, these were the first sniffles of World Cup fever, now unevenly sweeping the United States...
According to Lt. John F. Rooney, an average of three bikes per day are stolen from the Square, which has the highest bike theft rate in Cambridge. That's a particularly troubling figure in a city recently dubbed the "bike theft capital of Massachusetts" by The Boston Globe...
...police were less successful in battling bike thieves over the past year...
Coming to Radcliffe as a transfer in thefall of 1942, I trekked between Briggs on the Quadand the Radcliffe Yard, where everything-inparticular our classes--happened. That meant, inthat final year of young ladies' separate butequal education, an instructor, ending his lectureat Harvard, had to Cash on foot or bike acrossMass Ave, to repeat himself for our delicatefeminine ears. Nobody seemed to question this, andinstructors got their exercise...