Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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So what's going on here? There is no mystery about what caused the 1998 squeeze: company executives could not raise prices, no matter how much an increase might have been justified by rising costs, without losing market share to a host of U.S. and global competitors. The current rebound...
My second request may be of more interest to you. Like I said, I wrote a "My First Year" piece directed at last year's first-year class. I thought I had it all figured out: understand that in all likelihood you're not going to be the superstar at...
The one? You know, the One--the one that everyone meets at college; the One who the forces of love and the lords of the universe have connected you to and who you will inevitably ride off into the sunset with and live happily ever after with and all that...
Now, with this brief review of my wondrous first-year experience complete, I follow up with a couple of epilogues. The Girl? The One I was destined to be making waffles for at age 73? Well, the following summer, I met another girl, and then another one in the fall...
But what I have learned to love and admire about my schoolmates is not their invincibility, but their humanity. There were my dormmates, who eagerly signed up to scribe my homework and lent me tapes and tape recorders to do homework. The senior who let me use his voice dictation...