Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop worrying already? Everyone?s favorite harbinger of inflation, the red-breasted Consumer Price Index, is harbingering no such thing. After an April spike that put a fear of Greenspan into the markets -- a fear that hasn?t dissipated -- consumer prices in May remained flat (with only a 0.1 percent hike if you exclude falling energy prices). That?s zilch, folks. And so now it can be told: Reports of the resurrection of inflation were greatly exaggerated. "April?s rise was, as predicted, a one-time thing," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "With May?s number, the jittery...
...next day Microsoft developed Stained-Glass Windows, the most advanced spiritual software ever. The user could download a worship experience, including Scripture, Webpastor's sermon and Holy Sacraments, in 10 minutes flat. You knelt at the keyboard and hit alt/f7, and out the disk drive came a tiny white wafer. Bill Gates e-mailed God a copy of Windows and a note...
Lourie's novel purports to be a memoir that Stalin left behind, stashed in a crawl space above the room where he died in 1953. In hard, flat, ruthless prose that is also sometimes horribly funny, Lourie's Stalin, supposedly writing in 1938-39, directs an operation to seek out and assassinate his nemesis, Leon Trotsky, then bunkered in Mexico City, raising rabbits and plotting a comeback...
...Good racing conditions prevailed, with a current of 10-15 knots on flat water throughout the weekend...
...their own: $1,500 a year for unlimited trades and unlimited advice. Merrill's bigwigs are touting that plan as the best way to go, pointing out that you'll get more unbiased advice from a broker who doesn't work on a per-trade commission (and like most flat-fee programs, it's on average a good moneymaker for Merrill). But the $1,500 plan also goes right to the heart of Merrill's reluctance to get into the online business in the first place: their brokers. "Merrill is known for its brokers -- it's got a whole army...