Word: disappoints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investors were stunned last week when Steinhardt, 54, announced that he was winding down the four high-performing hedge funds he has guided almost flawlessly for 28 years. Wall Street struggled to imagine what his definition of retirement might be. Not one to disappoint, the financial whiz explained that although he is an atheist, he hopes to infuse American society with secular Jewish values...
...about Trimble, so is he icy about the rest of his romantic attachments (he matter-of-factly states that he'd had 1,000 sexual liaisons by the time he was 25), as well as about most of his family and friends, nearly all of whom seem to disappoint...
...boxing world received a shot in the arm with the return of Mike Tyson to the ring. Iron Mike didn't disappoint in his debut, recording a first-round knockout against a marginally-worthy opponent, Peter McNeely...
...Miss Massachusetts Marcia M. Turner '97 did not disappoint. Turner, a Lowell resident, made it all the way to the round of 10 semi-finalists...
...does not disappoint. His memoir, In Confidence, is a no-pulled-punches page turner of a diplomatic history, spiced with anecdotes and insights. He recounts how Stalin once told his Ambassador to the U.S., Andrei Gromyko, to learn English by listening to sermons in American churches. How Dobrynin, during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, communicated with Moscow via Western Union, which sent a bicycle messenger to pick up coded cables. How Moscow secretly offered financial aid to Vice President Hubert Humphrey for his 1968 presidential campaign against Richard Nixon (Humphrey declined the offer). How Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev...