Word: davids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hamer shut her up fast, and she cooked them a decent meal. Afterward Hamer took Judas out to the edge of the village, a plateau aimed at the distant Dead Sea. He said to Judas, "You know Jesus told me, early on, that he was born here--it's David's town, remember? Said he was born in one of the caves right down here below...
...strategy is putting pressure on the competition. Traditional venture-capital outfits like Kleiner Perkins and powerful newcomers such as David Weatherell's CMGI have been assembling their own Internet conglomerates. Now they may have to do battle with Softbank. "These keiretsu are going to face off like football teams," says Howard Anderson, founder of consultants the Yankee Group. Yahoo competes with Lycos, which CMGI covets, and Kleiner Perkins' WebGrocer will be up against Softbank's Webvan, another online supermarket based in California...
...WHEN DAVID KELLEY DOESN'T CALL...
Stein is not a performer by training. A fallen hippie Yale law graduate (with Hillary Clinton), Stein used his father's connections to get a job as a speechwriter for President Nixon (with Pat Buchanan, David Gergen and John McLaughlin), who was then under siege from, among others, Carl Bernstein, Stein's childhood next-door neighbor and Maryland public high school classmate (with Sylvester Stallone, Goldie Hawn and Connie Chung). Although some have posited him as Deep Throat, Stein has always remained a Nixon loyalist. Tapes of Nixon's resignation show Stein crying, and he insists that he was asked...
...PRICE OF HAPPINESS What's a good marriage worth? Economists David Blanchflower of Dartmouth and Andrew Oswald at England's University of Warwick calculate that a lasting marriage adds happiness equivalent to an extra $100,000 a year. They also say that yes, higher income equals greater happiness; that to make up for the sadness of losing a job would require an extra $60,000 a year; and that while the gap has diminished over the years, whites are happier than blacks--about $30,000 happier...