Word: follows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After you've set your rules and boundaries, but your children make the decision not to follow them, it's the time for punishment...Make the punishment memorable. Make the punishment appropriate to the crime...This is not a test you can afford to fail." (Parenting for Dummies...
...never found out. I suppose the Post might have run a follow-up, but there's a lot of news competing for limited space these days. Also, even a news junkie can't read everything. More and more often, I find myself reading a disturbing story in the newspaper--for instance, a story in the New York Times headlined MUBARAK VISITS SYRIA IN EFFORT TO DEFUSE CRISIS WITH TURKEY--and then realizing weeks later that I have no idea how the story turned...
...Triangle for small fowl--have swallowed up both the sooty waddlers in Trafalgar Square and the sleek homing pigeons who flew over the Mid-Atlantic states? The answer, I realized, might lie forever in a sort of phantom file of mine that's growing thicker and thicker--the lost follow-up. Meanwhile, at my wife's insistence, I drained the pipes...
...Merrill's death, in 1956, the firm had some 400,000 clients and had become the largest brokerage in the country, a distinction it holds to this day. But Merrill died a sorely disappointed man. Wall Street had not rushed to follow his example, as he had hoped, and the majority of the country, still scarred by the memory of the Depression, was not ready to plunge back into stocks. He was simply too far ahead of his time...
...talking creativity and ideas, Bill Gates is an American unoriginal. He is Microsoft's chief and co-founder, he is the world's richest man, and his career delivers this message: It can be wiser to follow than to lead. Let the innovators hit the beaches and take the losses; if you hold back and follow, you can clean up in peace and quiet...