Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before the 1995 M.C.-Prep showdown had started, however, something had changed. An exuberance skipped about our heads like leaves dancing in a cool breeze. Maybe it was the chance to relieve stress accumulated over college applications, SATs and high school in general. Maybe it was faith. Maybe it was both...
...director of the United Farm Worker's press division and Cesar Chavez's press secretary from 1975-'93, was quoted as saying, "Nothing has changed. Grape workers who have organized under the UFW have been intimidated, physically attacked, and harassed [by] grape growers who refuse to bargain in good faith for union contracts...
...that keep-the-faith individual, this bull market's greatest ally, who ended, at least for the time being, what could have been a global catastrophe. "All day [Monday] I was hearing stories of gloom and doom, about the market being in the tank," says Susan Becker Doroshow, 40, a dentist in Evanston, Ill. "And when I got home, we started hearing from some of my husband's friends, who are very actively involved in the market. They were practically opening their veins...
...matter, she calmly reflects. "There really isn't much else to do with your money besides the stock market. There's no money in CDs or in the banks. And gold is ridiculous." Doroshow is emblematic of the massive faith in stocks that has gripped individuals across the country. Macie Huwiler, a Chicago advertising executive, is another such investor. "I'm one of those people who are basically blase" about the market, she says. "Virtually everything I have is in my 401(k), and since I can't touch any of it, I sort of figure, what the hell. There...
...long been an article of faith among health-conscious Americans that extra doses of vitamin and mineral supplements can cover a multitude of dietary sins. So it seemed like heresy last week when Jane Brody, the Times' respected health columnist, questioned the value of those supplements and the quantities they are being taken in. "There is scant evidence that vitamin and mineral supplements are beneficial [for most people]," she wrote. "Consumers are, in effect, volunteering for a vast largely unregulated experiment...