Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlikely that many of the survivors will come from the current crop of Internet stocks making their debuts as IPOs. Now on the docket are many also-rans, third or fourth to market with second-tier managements. Take PCQuote.com which filed last Wednesday to raise $100 million. It competes in the already jammed area of financial data, which includes TheStreet.com Reuters and others. "How new is that? Let's go watch paint dry," sniffs David Menlow of the research firm IPO Financial Network...
...reading program worked out well. My daughter started fourth grade with a clean slate, and we both formed a daily habit of reading fiction. Last fall we joined with some other mothers and daughters from school and formed a book group. Working from a list provided by a local bookstore, we choose titles appropriate for adolescents and read them together. Once a month we meet at the home of one of the members to eat pizza and discuss our book. Some of the observations are startling, some banal. But the talk is always lively, and we like it so much...
...formidable player. Last year Disney bought a 43% stake in InfoSeek, a search engine that was slipping behind competitors and needed a new brand and some marketing might. Disney needed to beef up its online presence with a portal. In January the two launched the Go Network, now the fourth most popular online destination go.com) with more than 19 million visitors a month. Not bad, but far from the best. At No. 1, yahoo.com attracts close to 31 million, according to Net-traffic tracker Media Metrix. Disney's other online properties include extensions of its well-known TV and cable...
...most of those G.I.s, World War II was the adventure of their lifetime. Nothing they would ever do in the future would match their experiences as the warriors of democracy, saving the world from its own insanity. You can still see them in every Fourth of July color guard, their gait faltering but ever proud...
...think about anything at all. "I had found the elixir of life," he wrote. Wilson's last drink, 17 years later, when alcohol had destroyed his health and his career, precipitated an epiphany that would change his life and the lives of millions of other alcoholics. Incarcerated for the fourth time at Manhattan's Towns Hospital in 1934, Wilson had a spiritual awakening--a flash of white light, a liberating awareness of God--that led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and Wilson's revolutionary 12-step program, the successful remedy for alcoholism. The 12 steps have also generated successful...