Word: blacker
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...Small Investor obeyed the wisdom of the day and stayed away so as to avoid being stampeded, they may not for long. And what was at least a Gray Monday could get blacker as the week goes on and selling begets pessimism and begets more selling. At the opening bell for Tuesday?s session it will only be a week since the financial world was blown up by some very determined men, and nobody knows yet how the globe, much less the global economy, will be affected...
...History is filled with white people who have tried to become blacker. Take Elvis Presley... even today, groups like N'Sync and the Backstreet Boys. Culture is for everybody, but there is a difference between appreciating a culture and appropriating a culture...
...very, very good leader," says Coit Blacker, deputy director of Stanford's Institute for International Studies. "She's very clear, she's very forceful, she sets her priorities clearly. She's tough, fair-minded and disciplined...
...thinks she's done her tour as a senior university administrator," Blacker says. "I think, frankly, she sees other worlds to conquer...
...most liked to sit--on a bench across the reflecting pool from the rows of chairs. Karen's is aligned with an American flag flapping against a high pole near the back wall. Jeanine can orient herself in relation to it. I take the same position. The pool is blacker this evening, the ripples tighter; they make the dark water look like the ridges of an old 78 phonograph record. A stiff breeze blows the flag against the pole and makes a tinny ringing sound...