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...played Lord of the Flies in the remoter woods of Rock Creek Park in Washington. We collected stones in bushel baskets and hid them among the dogwood blossoms. And then, nasty little sociopaths, 10 or 12 years old, we lay in ambush and at the signal hurled rocks full force at our enemies, who were led by the boy with yellow teeth...
...right at detonation, the Trading Goddess rings and whispers those three little words: "Don't blow it." She was alluding to 10 years ago, when I failed to buy in the last decade's most famous October buying opportunity. My toughest critic/guardian angel unflinchingly said, "Stand there with a bushel basket as stocks come in." What stocks? I wanted names. Too late. She was engrossed in a dot-to-dot with our three-year- old. "I'll leave something to you," she said, and the crystal ball went dark. I would only have a few minutes...
...Those were the days. I gladly forked over hundreds of dollars for scalped tickets to Game 6, missed sections by the bushel and watched as the baseball world fell in love with a team whose spirit was bigger than the Bronx's right-field power alley...
...contracts and remedies are framed in terms of a bushel of wheat, or a camel, the offspring of a camel and a load of dates--everything is stated in those terms, which we now are trying to make relevant and into feasible financing arrangements for...modern investors," Hayes said...
...Yeltsin to win the election was several weeks of heavy pounding with negative TV ads and grossly biased campaign coverage. That was enough to persuade rookie voters to re-elect their leader, Yeltsin, who was so unpopular just a few months ago. Did they really have a choice? MICHAEL BUSHEL Pacifica, California