Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yielding bonds and cash--chiefly the risk that you'll outlive your money. Also, most bond prices would be hit by any revival of inflation. Sticking with stocks is a gamble that financial planner Satovsky says is worth it "if you want to live to 100 and not go broke...
Talk about back to the future. Ma Bell wants to be your sole communications provider again, just 15 years after regulators broke up AT&T's telephone monopoly. A major difference this go-round is that there's no monopoly. Another difference is that we're talking about much more than your phone. The vision described above, of lower cost and simpler billing for a whole complex of telecommunication services, could become reality in only a year or two--after billions of dollars in hardware upgrades. AT&T's dynamic CEO, C. Michael Armstrong, who took over in November...
...always up for a laugh." But her extraordinary lies (the "Julia" story, for example) and her habit of self-glorification--herself presented as saint and martyr in the memoirs An Unfinished Woman, Scoundrel Time and elsewhere--were to Podhoretz symptoms of corruption and dishonor. Podhoretz admired Arendt but eventually broke with her over her famous New Yorker articles on the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961 and, as Podhoretz saw it, her seeming lack of sympathy for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust...
Bala and Schwefel were paired together in the Beanpot consolation and the two combined for Harvard's fourth goal in a 6-4 loss. Bala broke down the defense, skating through the Boston College zone, and dropped a pass to Schwefel who rung...
...equally life-affirming. The epic seven-minute-and-forty-seven-second "747" was a fitting song to close on. Markus Mustonen, the drummer, began the song by quietly patting away with brushes; by the end, he was driving an urgent rhythm with drumsticks. Sami Sirvio, the lead guitarist, broke a string about five minutes into "747," but his relentless playing never skipped a beat...