Word: drawerfuls
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...Saengau rummages in a drawer and puts on a video of Baan Yandee's New Year festival. It shows a noisy, musical procession, where an elderly chap is carried though cobbled streets on a moth-eaten throne. "That's Jau Phaendin," he says reverently. "He is allowed to come back to his village once every year...
...sale of ImClone stock last December-a day before the company announced bad news about its promising cancer drug-was "proper and lawful." Her company also announced a 26% jump in ad pages for the July issue of Martha Stewart Living. Say this for the woman who turns old drawer pulls into fancy wine corks: She knows her audience. Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, in which she has a 63% stake worth nearly $500 million, recovered to $15.97 Friday after a two-week slide that had taken it down to $14.40 amid fears that her brand would be sullied...
...There's the 27 Fling Boogie, where you run through your home with a plastic bag and find 27 things to throw away. Or you spend five minutes cleaning up a particular "hot spot," a place where messes tend to pile up, like the bedside table or the junk drawer in your kitchen. The so-called Weekly Home Blessing Hour is actually 60 minutes of intensive cleanup in which you spend no more than 10 minutes on each area. To avoid feeling overwhelmed, Cilley encourages everyone to set a 10-minute timer for each task and stop when the buzzer...
...They should take the documents that would reveal that to the public. They should copy them and put them on the Internet,” he says. “They should take a file drawer of documents and take them over to Capitol Hill, the New York Times and the Associated Press...
...investing strategy, buy and hold has never been more suspect. Giant companies now collapse in scandal, like Enron; fall woefully behind in technology, like Polaroid; succumb to litigation, like Halliburton (asbestos); or get whacked by overpriced deals, like AOL. Are there still stocks that you can throw in a drawer and sleep well for years? Or has investing got so hopelessly complicated that individuals shouldn't try to go it alone...