Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the board also presented Wilson with a crystal bowl and announced that the board has commissioned an oil painting of Radcliffe's seventh and final president...
...polls are a crystal ball, Ehud Barak is poised to win the elections. Weaned at the knee of Yitzchak Rabin and as the former chief-of-staff of the Israeli Defense Force, Ehud Barak engenders confidence among some of the Israeli electorate. Yet despite these impressive credentials, Barak grapples with skeletons that may haunt him on election day. For example, Barak was not so long ago accused of fleeing the site of a tragic military training accident while chief of staff. While he has been exonerated in the courts, the accusations themselves are not forgotten history, and they continue...
This is pure crystal-ball gazing. The cyclicals could easily fizzle along with, say, the Asian recovery. But what if they don't? Now is a good time to review your portfolio. Odds are that you or the stock pickers at the mutual funds you own have grown a little too fond of technology and big consumer stocks. One quick way to judge: look at your portfolio's return in April. Lose money? That's a sign that you may be overexposed to speculation.com A diverse portfolio would include cyclicals, whose com-like gains last month would have offset weakness...
...terrific screenplay is based on former Harvard expository writing preceptor Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name. Perrotta's writing, crystal clear and incisive, wastes no time on frills; moves at full-speed with the full intention of causing a crash finish. Wisely, the filmmakers have stayed faithful to Perrotta's novel. After all, the storyline sets itself up for director Payne's satiric touch. At Carver High School, Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is the shoo-in for Student Council President. After all, everyone is afraid--terrified--to run against her. She's the ultimate overachiever--member of every...
Rushdie's prose ranges from lush to breathlessly over-the-top to simply ridiculous; in an attempt to bring a more rock-and-roll feel to the work, he introduces slang, throwaway puns and silly lyrics that hinder his otherwise elegant style. He describes Vina as "Professor Vina and Crystal Vina, Holy Vina and profane Vina, Junkie Vina and Veggie Vina, Women's Vina and Vina the Sex Machine, Barren-Childless Tragic Vina and Traumatized-childhood-Tragedy Vina." Um, what was that again...