Word: disappointing
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...stocks. Big decisions. Neither company is likely to hurt you badly. GE will keep growing without Welch, and AT&T is getting so cheap that it will attract bargain hunters. But as icons go, both will disappoint...
What it all boils down to is that, in a strange way, we fans want our teams to lose, to disappoint us sometimes...
...seeks MLB team prone to disappoint yet capable of pulling out 9th inning victories. Experience as an underdog a plus. Baseball teams from Boston need not apply...
Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III opened last Friday at the Loeb Mainstage, in front of an audience eager if not for serious dramatic performance, then at least for a memorable show. The production did not disappoint the auteurs of either. Director Fred Hood managed a large and excellent cast almost as well as he did the mainstage, fulfilling his promise of "total theater." The Madness of George III was planned in the grandiose style of a Shakespearean production; it achieved this aim almost too well, with the result that it had some trouble retaining the delicate...
...that efficiency includes, it turns out, funding new businesses and laying waste to those that disappoint. On Wall Street, day traders and fund managers continue to smart over this year's natural--even desirable--bursting of the speculative tech-stock bubble. "The Internet really turbocharged everything," says Marshall Acuff, chief equities analyst for Salomon Smith Barney. "It was the infinite expectations for the Internet that pushed excitement to the ultimate level...