Word: dicey
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...GIVE YOUR GIFT Having hot musicians (Sheryl Crow, Macy Gray, Shaggy) sing about giving of yourself--so you'll give your business to the Gap--would be dicey any year, much less after Sept. 11. Yet once again, the retailer's holiday ads were culturally pitch-perfect. On a stark set, the singers, covering Supertramp's plangent Give a Little Bit, gave a little uplift to a Christmas season that needed...
...support ethnic nationalism in places like East Timor, but in Serbia that same emotion turned murderous. Religious fundamentalism is fine for, say, Mormons, but when it metastasizes into terrorism, it is noxious. Certainty is fine when the right people are certain, but things get dicey when, as Yeats wrote, "the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity...
...realization they are safe at home because U.S. bombs have generally been accurate. Yet thousands of others, especially near Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, are homeless, a consequence of the ongoing civil war. Relief agencies have adequate food and supplies, but getting the goods where they are needed has been dicey, especially in areas where the Taliban still roams. Delivery won't get much easier even when the Taliban is disarmed. Aid will still have to pass through the control of warlords, who will take their...
...drawn up. Those around the Chairman were making excuses for why he wasn't acting more aggressively. They argued that the strictures Israel continues to place on Palestinians, preventing free movement between Palestinian cities and access to jobs in Israel, create a climate in which it is politically dicey for Arafat to do Israel's bidding. Last week Palestinians spat on Arafat's policemen when they came to arrest Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists. In Gaza's Zeitoun neighborhood, police put Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin under house arrest and then had to deal with two days of riots...
...SHARES Most financial advisers will tell you to forget this dicey game. But if you're determined, U.S. brokerages with Far East offices--and that includes all the big ones like Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley--can get you B shares...