Word: charmers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nagano is the unpretentious town you learn to like, Hakuba, an hour away by bus (and site of many of the snowy events) is the practiced charmer that grabs you instantly. This is in part, no doubt, because Nagano is a city with 360,000 people--more populous than Iceland--while Hakuba is a village of just 9,400 residents, a picture-perfect poster site for the Japan Alps with its Chalet Heidihof pensions and white birch forests encircled by snowcaps reflected in the Princess River...
Like a snake charmer, Greenspan talked the market into a catatonic state--or was it that traders were merely exhausted? Prices remained somewhat stable the rest of the week, and by Friday the Dow stood 9.9% below its all-time high and few investors seemed much worse for the wear. There were some casualties, among them speculator George Soros, whose company lost $2 billion on Monday. Several Fed presidents joined Greenspan in talking up the economy. "The basics of the U.S. economy are strong," said Cathy Minehan, president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank. "I see no reason why that...
...crew prepared for the day, Lazutkin floated into the main module and rigged the television monitor that had so famously failed weeks before. He worked the cables with the skill of a snake charmer, hooking them up to the TV with an authoritative snap. "You're not going to have a problem this time," he reassured Tsibliyev. "The picture is not going to disappear...
Really successful writers give their readers a world they know intimately, and Harold certainly knew his world. From his luxurious yachts in the south of France to his lavish jet-set parties, Harold was king. He was larger than life and a real charmer. I will miss him and his ferocious talent. But his books will go on entertaining forever...
...folkie Pauline Taylor's just-finished album indicates she is a blazing talent; Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter Kacy Crowley is another one to watch, judging by an early listen to her confident debut, Anchorless; and Chantal Kreviazuk's just-out Under These Rocks and Stones is also a charmer...