Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataAnd for the ever-cautious Greenspan, the slow-news dog days of August are the perfect time to put rate worries to bed for the year. "First of all, he?ll want to make sure there?s enough liquidity in the money supply to deal with any Y2K disruptions," says Baumohl. "And he knows that as the political campaigns heat up, there?s going to be debate about the economy. He doesn?t want to be part of that rhetoric." Which could be rough on Steve Forbes. But Al Gore will be thankful for a domestic...
Asked which threat to the region is most pressing, Terry Springer replies with a fable of a puppy crossing the river with a knapsack. As the little dog crosses the river, people gradually add stones to the knapsack until the puppy drowns. "Which stone killed the puppy?" asks Springer...
...unspeakable. "The people who do these things are exploiting the worst part of Nixon's personality," says Ford. "It is unfair. He had many achievements." The latest piece of Nixonmania is Dick, a movie of the absurd in which two teenage girls are Deep Throat, the long-dead Nixon dog Checkers is transposed to the White House and detests his President, G. Gordon Liddy looks like a yuppie Groucho Marx, and Pat Nixon snores like a truckdriver...
...others, the thaw will take longer. Kim Bingham, 33, of Santa Cruz, Calif., says that a week after seeing the movie, her 14-year-old daughter "still can't sleep at night. She doesn't want to talk about it. She won't go outside to feed the dog because she has to pass by some trees, and they remind her of the movie...
...York. Morris was the editor of Harper's and had been a Rhodes scholar. I wrote to him shortly after I got my Rhodes, and to my surprise, he agreed to see me. He was wonderfully wry and funny--the classic Southerner. He wrote a great book about his dog. He wrote a fascinating book about the role of football in the South and the racial barriers, The Courting of Marcus Dupree. You know, most Southerners thought they'd be looked down upon if they went up to the Northeast. The cultural elites would all think they were hayseeds--although...