Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Warren Buffett took control of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., in 1965, the stock was worth less than $20. With prudent investments in blue-chip companies such as Coca-Cola and Capital Cities/ABC, Buffett drove BH into the low thirties--$30,000, that is. By refusing to split the stock into...
I figured that I'm an average driver. Not to boast, I've always thought that I'm a bit better than average. I am, after all, the former co-editor of a New York journal called Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking. You don't get that kind of...
So I was confident of being one of the people in for a $27 windfall. I just needed to figure out how to spend it. I knew that a trip to the West was out. I had just read that 10 states out there are raising their speed limit to...
I had tried to accept that finding calmly. Given the widespread speculation in the press recently about the possibility that Perot has always been a cuckoo bird, I figured that the discrepancy might be explained by the human tendency to remember what we wish we had done rather than what...
Everyone knew that Jackie's belongings would draw crowds. Sotheby's auctions of the effects of the Duchess of Windsor in 1987 and of Andy Warhol did so, and those people were not as famous and charismatic as Jackie, who hovered, Cheshire cat-like, in the public imagination for more...