Word: eves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prices eventually tumble. With baby boomers saving for retirement, odds are stocks will go much higher over the next 20 years. It's silly to jump in and out and risk missing big rallies. The declines will be overcome. But human nature hasn't changed much since Adam and Eve. Many people now putting their life savings in stocks will instinctively move to protect them if they sense lasting trouble. Rather than lock in lush profits today, they'll lock in dismal gains--if not outright losses--tomorrow...
...Halloween: It's not deserving of full holiday status, though a half day seems appropriate. All Hallow's Eve is not just for kids anymore, and getting out of work a few hours early would allow for more elaborate costumes and decorations. On a more serious note, parents would be able to escort their progeny through the very real dangers that have regrettably cast their shadow over the institution of trick-or-treating...
...think professors have to be held most responsible for their avoidance of difficult decisions. They, like most of us, don't want to have to make controversial decisions and then stand by them eve when a student comes to their office hours snootily demanding an explanation. They don't want to deal with students on an individual basis wherein they would have to come to terms with the possibility that a sophomore could possibly be qualified for their course. It disturbs me to think there are professors who don't want to take the time to have their students present...
...eve of classes my first year, my Link helped me pick the right courses," he said. "The jargon for fields of concentration is confusing as hell, but my Link sorted it all out for me. Life at Harvard would have been miserable had the program not existed for me. Without the Transfer Link, I don't know what I would have done...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: "This is one of the last great rituals of the Republic," reports TIME's White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister on the eve of President Clinton's fifth State of the Union Address. "People really do gather 'round the television and listen to the President detail his plans for the country." McAllister says Clinton will try to equal the success of last year's address, delivered amid a series of government shutdowns, which immediately turned the tables on Congressional Republicans. Clinton's declaration then that "the era of big government is over" became his most memorable line, while then...