Word: flings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about Wall Street, none is stranger than a mutual fund that was put on the market last week by Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., the nation's largest brokerage firm. Most professional money managers, Merrill Lynch's included, have been sensibly enough urging investors anxious to take a fling in the market to put their money into stocks of blue-chip companies. But Merrill Lynch brokers now have a way to help investors who hate following the crowd and do not mind a risk or two. They can simply buy shares, at $10 each, in the firm...
...night when his two-year-old daughter would not stop crying, he reached for a sixpack. He recalls, horrified, that he was about to fling it at her, and glances sheepishly at the photograph of smiling Alicia, now 18, on the cell wall...
...defended on world currency markets. Yet his pride kept him from admitting this painful reality until after the seven-nation Versailles summit conference. With its lavish displays of fireworks, fountains and nonstop pageantry, that diplomatic spectacular may in many ways have represented Socialist France's last carefree fling. Within a week after it ended, Finance Minister Jacques Delors traveled to Brussels to present his European partners with a package of self-imposed austerity measures. They included a 10% devaluation of the franc against the West German mark, as well as a four-month freeze on wages and prices...
...Bagnold added another dimension, which she once spoke of in a 1956 interview: "How boldly we waste our time-when we know there is so little of it. How we know nothing-and would rather garden than think of it. How the slightest diversion makes one fling off the tedium of contemplating God. Life is wasted and flung away hourly in expectation. The days run by, decoyed by it. Even in getting up, we expect breakfast. Then there is Monday . .. and Saturday ... and Christmas ... There is a continual tiny date with activity. Or-if we are left in a pool...
Golf also has its risks, although these are not as obvious as in contact sports which fling equipment and bodies back and forth under the rules of the game. Fat golfers occasionally suffer heart attacks or heat prostration out on the links, and some Florida players have been struck by lightning. During the spring trip. Baker had to hit a shot near a water hazard. As he swung at the ball, he noticed that an eight-foot alligator lay within spitting distance Obstacles like these are considered part of the game--golfers don't give up and go home just...