Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From day one of the Class of 1998's first year, it seemed, bizarre interrup- tions in the normal ebb and flow hinted thatthe class would see some strange twists in itsquest to enjoy the fruits of a Harvard education...
Understand, though, that the easy money (if there really is such a thing) has already been made. Banks have been buying other banks for decades, and while it hasn't always been a joyride, since their low ebb in 1990 bank stocks have risen nearly twice as fast as the average stock, which itself has risen nearly twice as fast as the historical norm. They've jumped over Standard & Poor's 500 every year since 1994, according to David Berry, research director at Keefe Bruyette & Woods, an investment firm specializing in banks. The outsize gains this decade have left bank...
Like Khentov, Evans is unabashedly proud of his neighborhood, Sound View, a low-income community in the heart of the Bronx. Yet he is realistic about the tidal pull of crime that moves with a constant ebb and flow through the close-knit series of apartments surrounding...
Sally herself, played by Natasha Richardson, is older, more wasted, less the perky-quirky charmer played by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie. Richardson (The Handmaid's Tale onscreen; Anna Christie onstage; Vanessa Redgrave's daughter in real life) doesn't belt out the Kander and Ebb numbers a la Liza; she acts them. The climactic title song, most startlingly, is no longer a triumphant anthem. Richardson clutches the microphone and grits through the lyrics ("Start by admitting/ From cradle to tomb/ Isn't that long a stay"), shouting her defiance even as she struggles to keep from flying apart...
...give some people pause--and not just because of cybergossip Matt Drudge. When the U.S. Constitution was written, representative government was a necessity. Communication from a citizen to the capital could take weeks. Now government by instant referendum is technologically feasible, and government policy is increasingly based on the ebb and flow of public opinion...