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Underscoring that point, one unusual hedgie, Jeff Vinik, has racked up stellar gains by taking an Everyman's approach to investing. Vinik, the onetime manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund, doesn't touch derivatives, futures or options, generally won't mess with commodities or bonds, and doesn't make macro currency bets. Such high-octane strategies are the purview of many hedge funds, and the reason some of those funds have made small fortunes--out of very large ones...
...impulse toward social equality has not disappeared. Those who may have been tempted to believe it has disappeared in our Everyman-is-a-stockholder age received a jolt at the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization late last year, and at the World Bank-IMF meetings in Washington in April. The left may have gone into momentary hibernation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but it never disappeared, and it is now re-energized by an enemy called globalization...
...nerve center of American air defenses. The base commander told Reagan that from there, the military could track an incoming nuclear missile but could do nothing to stop it. Fitzgerald writes: "[The story] resonates with Biblical and mythological overtones... Reagan can be seen as the innocent, the American Everyman who on the eve of his election must undergo initiation into the terrible secrets of power. Led into the 'granite core' of a mountain - into the innermost sanctum of esoteric knowledge - he looks for the first time upon the horror that scientists and their masters have created for the country...
...playing third base (the last spot dealt before the dealer) at Tony's table, and everyman's grandmother has claimed the spot next to me. She, unlike the others, is all too willing to talk...
...first choice. I wanted Everyman for this, I wanted the Everyman character. I wanted a young James Stewart. I wanted somebody that men could relate to, that women could relate to. I wanted somebody that didn't look like a hardened criminal, because he was in there for car theft, not for murder. I wanted somebody who was intelligent, that you believe could think on his feet like this. I wanted an actor who could do the comedy, the funny lines. And I wanted someone whom I like around me. I don't like working with people that...