Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crockett was all fastballs and curveballs atthe knees", Keck said. "And he was dropping down,too, throwing what we nicknamed 'The Bull.' It's asidearm fastball that starts behind righthanders andends up on the outside corner, so we were having alot of fun with that...
Even if the Lycos deal goes through as currently configured, Wetherell and CMGI stand to make close to $700 million. And with companies such as Chemdex, Silknet, Raging Bull and Medical Village preparing to go public and perhaps become the next Lycos or GeoCities, Wetherell's viral growth justifications of wild valuations will continue to be gospel in the Net economy. "David is so confident and so smart," says Bill Martin, 21, a University of Virginia dropout and one of the founders of Raging Bull, a financial Web community half-owned by CMGI. "But he's a guts...
Good move. If all goes according to plan and Wetherell's valuation models continue to hold, then Raging Bull will go public in about a year, and Martin will be worth a few hundred million dollars. Those will be Internet dollars, of course--but do you think Martin really cares...
Jack also acts as a translator for other Cheyenne in trouble, and makes friends with Sitting Bull and his people; through these experience, Jack exposes the tragedy of the Native American experience during this time with dignity and understanding. Some of the more amusing episodes in Jack's life have to do with a certain woman named Amanda, and Jack's attempts to turn his roughness into charm in order to win her. Through it all, Jack admits his mistakes gracefully and keeps his mind open to people very different from himself, while exposing the true natures of other people...
...alltelling stories about Hemingway, who first book hadjust appeared, and they were talking in what Iafterward came to recognize as the Hemingwaydialect-tough, matter-of-fact and confidential, Inthe middle of the evening one of them rose, tookoff his jacket and used it to show how he woulddominate a bull...