Word: corking
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...DISSENT: Cork the Champagne...
Vestiges of the past are still apparent everywhere, from the now-worn cork floors to the five or so typewriters tucked away in a reading room on level...
...that it will be the product of an extraordinary run. If the Dow had risen at its historical rate of 11% a year instead of its 24% average annual rise since 1994, it would now be nearing 6000, and we'd be years--not days--from popping the cork. No one can say when this period of outsized gains will end. But the same trends will not last forever...
...Wright brothers had been fascinated by the idea of flight from an early age. In 1878 their father, a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, gave them a flying toy made of cork and bamboo. It had a paper body and was powered by rubber bands. The young boys soon broke the fragile toy, but the memory of its faltering flight across their living room stayed with them. By the mid-1890s Wilbur was reading every book and paper he could find on the still earthbound science of human flight. And four years before they made...
...great to see Tom doing so well," said Michael Geoghegan of Cork City, Clifford's co-producer and an Irish immigrant himself. "Just like there is no way of communicating the word no in Gaelic, there's no way of saying...