Word: expresser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aviation, operator of NetJets, which created a business in fractional ownership of aircraft. With revenues projected at $900 million for 1998 and climbing an average rate of 35% annually, the company instantly became the fastest-growing division in Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway empire, which includes stakes in American Express and Coca-Cola and ownership of Geico insurance...
...economic consultant and author of the best-selling Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. "It takes a particular kind of environment for all these things to happen." That environment--unprecedented prosperity and almost a decade without a major ground war--may be what causes Americans to express some inveterate need to take risks...
...afraid I see all this as a further cause of generational tension. If middle-aged citizens who are puffing up a hill on their bicycles find themselves passed with embarrassing ease by some 25-year-old who tosses off a "Hi ya, Pops," they have yet another way to express their irritation. "If you're so young," they can shout after him, "why aren't you rich...
...haven't heard people express a lot of concern about the University being able to monitor when they come and go,"said Jill L. Wheeler '95, chair of the QuincyHouse Committee...
...planning to have a group of people express their dissatisfation stridently but quietly," Cole says...