Word: dicey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fashion world. As clothes became less flashy--as Versace gave way to Prada--designers turned to models who were less glamorous, so they wouldn't overpower the clothing. "Maggie Rizer, Erin O'Connor, Karen Elson--those three girls are idiosyncratic," says Gandee. "Maggie has freckles; Karen has kind of dicey skin. You don't look at them and say, 'That's a pretty girl.' They not only weren't the homecoming queen; they might not have been invited to the prom." Magazine editors don't have to be nice either...
...third of world output "are in depression or recession, and we're still counting"; Japan, the world's second biggest economy, "is still going down--it looks like a drop of 2% this year"; in Latin America, Venezuela and Colombia are in recession and Brazil is "in a very dicey situation," saddled with an overvalued currency. Argentina also "is at risk because a chunk of its exports goes to Brazil." Even Canada is "slowing down because of Asia"--and Canada and Latin America together account for more than 40% of U.S. exports...
...might prescribe it from time to time for students who simply can't relax," Dicey says. "On the other hand, we assume that yoga, meditation and massage are good for anyone...
This isn't the dicey game of timing it may seem. For example, you can guard against missing a quick recovery by buying another depressed stock in the same industry. Sell Halliburton, down 41%, to lock in the tax benefits; then buy rival Schlumberger, down about 30%. Likewise, swap Philip Morris for RJR, AMR for Northwest, Caterpillar for Deere...
...recruits spend six or seven years in the field before getting their first taste of the presidential detail. Three additional years of seasoning are required before an agent is given the responsibility of preparing security for a major presidential event. (It falls to the SAIC to plan for such dicey foreign ventures as Clinton's 1997 Bosnia tour.) The schedule is routinely grueling. When the President is traveling, a normal eight-hour shift can easily stretch to 18 or even 24 hours. After every six weeks on the job, members of the detail return to the service's facility...