Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanted the CD player because it was a cool gadget. Yet it made me who I am. I'm a music freak. I love music. It plays constantly in my room; it plays often in my mind. Many of my fundamental life moments have come through or along with my music...
...game the Fed. For weeks on end I heard talking head after talking head spouting that the Federal Reserve Board was about to embark on a string of tightenings to cool down the economy. The Fed watchers had it all figured out. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had repeatedly leaked that the rollicking days of a strong economy were over. He was going to put the brakes on the longest peacetime advance with a series of rapid-fire interest-rate hikes that would send the stock market into a tizzy...
...problem is overload--too much data, too many reports, too many experts looking for "tendencies" as if they were football coaches and the Federal Reserve an NFL team. For weeks, it seems, the nation was on "Fed watch," as commentator after commentator opined on the Fed's desire to cool things down. (For the record, this talking head told you to take a vacation from the market this week so you would not have to think about Greenspan...
What's great about Picture CD is the terrifically easy-to-use software for editing your photos that comes with it. Cropping, improving the contrast, removing red eye and even sending your images via e-mail are so simple that instructions are unnecessary. Also cool: each disc includes free demo programs (they will change every 60 days) that allow you to have fun with your photos. One made it simple to swap heads, for instance. Another popped in cartoon characters...
...essays are rewritten many times. "Its a huge difference," says U.C. Irvine student tutor Sonia Velazquez. "Kids know when it's remedial and they're being talked down to, no matter how nice you put it." But to be in the outreach program means to be special, bright, even cool. When Willard held sign-ups for its math academy, a program that meant spending all Saturday morning at school, the library was swamped as 90 kids fought for 60 spots...