Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...millions on tiny ticks of the tape. Cramer, whose 22% compound annual return over nine years marks him as a winning investor, is perhaps an even greater show. He spends most of the trading session jumping up and down out of a very worn chair, shouting orders at the calm traders who surround him. Says Cramer, who abandoned the security of Goldman Sachs for life as a trader: "Hedge-fund managers used to seem like Errol Flynn...
Jobs is intimidating at first. He has, after all, been portrayed as an abusive monster, and countless colleagues attest to his arrogance and intolerance. But now, even during the week of the highest stress he has faced in years, he exudes his other side: the Zen-like calm and the impish aura that make him so different from his arch friend and arch rival Gates, a man of competitive intensity and analytical rigor. This Jobs literally lopes into the room, and he keeps using the word golly. So O.K., golly, it's true that the famed "Reality Distortion Field"--that...
...demise of the Marlboro Man. He's simply living abroad. I've just returned from Guatemala, where an artful TV ad begins with a nighttime storm, stampeding cattle, restless horses and men saddling up to enact a fantasy of real men's work. At the end, machismo served and calm restored, the handsome hero lights up...his Marlboro. Why am I not surprised? Developing nations have long served as dumping grounds for everything from banned pesticides to Dalkon Shields. We've got to invent mechanisms for ensuring that multinational corporations maintain the same environmental and social ethics abroad that they...
...demonstrations, more than 3,000 pro-democracy demonstrators marched through the downtown area deriding China's form of government and demanding freedom of speech. Such protests may become more difficult starting Thursday, when all demonstrators must obtain a permit from local authorities before assembling. In an attempt to further calm fears of a crackdown, the Chinese leadership has promised Hong Kong citizens that soldiers assigned to garrison duty will be forbidden by law from involvement in Hong Kong's affairs and will not appear on the streets in armed vehicles. First impressions of the new military forces seemed to support...
...mainland. So when a Tung spokesman indicated that the word independent was being dropped from its English name because it did not appear in the Chinese, Hong Kong again suspected the worst. (It was all just a technicality, the spokesman later said, leaving the English name intact to calm the critics...