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...less charitably inclined, there are a myriad of self-indulgent organizations to explore. If you miss the halcyon days of medieval times, you can help The Society for Creative Anachronism recreate them. For those with even more active imaginations there is the Harvard Investment Association. Pretend you are Gordon Gecko. Pretend you live on the Upper West Side. Prepare for 100-hour weeks punching numbers...
...woman approached this young undergraduate, whispering "Are you interested in International Business?" I replied that although it wasnUt my main area of concern, I certainly knew my fair share of management consultant and Gordon Gecko types. "Good," whispered she, "because there's some thing big happening that I want to talk to you about--but not here. Do you have a business card?" I regretted that I did not. "Give me your phone number anyway." I searched around for a piece of paper, but all I had in my pocket was a blank check. I turned it over and wrote...
MYOPIC MODERN HERO; Einstein on the beach without a paradigm; Steven Jay Gould gone off the deep end in search of the gecko and the albino gorilla--the name of this man is Mr. Palomar...
...majority of Floridians are not native born. Among recent transplants, however, are creatures who have come not for a balmy retirement, but for work, mostly at night. They are geckos-purple polka-dotted lizards, ranging from three inches to a foot long-and their job is eating cockroaches. Convinced that poisons and fatally sticky boxes do not provide enough firepower in the roach war, many Floridians are giving store-bought geckos (price: $10 to $20 apiece) the run of their homes. Bill Huff, who owns House of Pets in Tallahassee, says he sold 36 geckos in one week...
...Dawayne Goodburn considers them "good family pets, very clean and companionable and easy to feed." He recently sold a 5-ft. South American boa to a family with 2½-year-old girl triplets. Snake-fancying Sophomore Laurie Vitt of Western Washington State College has a python, rattlesnake, tokay gecko and two boas, which he keeps in his room with his tarantulas when his parents entertain. One evening, he was treating the boas to some live white rats when the guests, hearing the squeals, wandered in. "For some reason," says Laurie, "everybody stopped drinking...