Word: camels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sell the stocks in their portions of the pot as they see fit. In that way, the company does not bet everything on one strategy. Says Day: "We use six different minds on the same problem. We're a committee that designs a horse instead of a camel." Over the past decade, the Trust Company of the West has beaten the S & P 500 index by an annual average of at least 2%, but last year the company fell behind somewhat. Reason: the managers failed to switch money fast enough from high-technology shares, which were big gainers early...
Modestly ironic accounts of crocodiles evaded, sheep's-ear soup survived, and thieving camel drivers overcome are what a proper travel book requires. The author labors at gaudy landscapes because they make good backdrops for sketches of himself in jaunty poses; the reader tolerates this hamminess because tales of bandits and dysentery make him feel snug in his armchair. Writing such stuff is an honest dodge, and in recent years no one has dodged more expertly than Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar (Europe and Asia) and The Old Patagonian Express (North and South America...
...proud day for Nigerians, the second presidential election since the country returned to civilian rule in 1979. From the dense rain forests of the southern delta to the desert in the north, they turned out in record throngs by car, camel and canoe to vote at some 160,000 polling stations. Belying their reputation for volatility, Nigerians waited patiently in lines for up to eight hours to have their say in their country's government. By the end of the day, 25.4 million voters had placed their thumbprints in indelible purple ink beside the symbol...
...ones in the past five years. Marlboro and Winston each come in eight different styles. The largest-selling brand is now Marlboro, with 20.9% of the market. Newcomers like Reynolds' Bright (1982) and Lorillard's Satin (1983) are on shelves next to oldies like Lucky Strike (1916), Camel (1913), Chesterfield (1911) and, oldest of all, Pall Mall...
...Bedford rape has become the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for area feminists, who marched on New Bedford City Hall in protest Monday night. Their march came less than two weeks after feminists at several Boston area campuses, Harvard included staged "Take Back the Night" marches protesting rape and other violence against women. These matches were staged in support of a march at Brandeis University. Where there have been more then half a dozen rapes in the past year. The barroom rape in New Bedford is bringing a lot of media attention to the problem...