Word: gekko
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...could learn to accept less upward mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded Ground Zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks kept coming. The task in this new decade is to find a place...
...throwing more than $230 billion into upgrading to 3G - shorthand for third generation - look no further than Bon's occasionally dodgy telephone. (Not that the handsets linked up to BT Cellnet or Vodafone are any better.) Though mobiles have come a long way since the days when Gordon Gekko stood on the beach talking to a brick, you still wouldn't make a call on one if a landline was available. And if voice services are skimming the edge of adequacy, that's still more than anyone could say of the "mobile Internet." Even the biggest boosters of wap-based...
...pretentious idiots, in part because you are not dignified enough to carry off a cigar. Get with the times, already, and stub out that stogie. Sure, you're going to have to find something else to do with your extra cash, but that shouldn't be too tough. Gordon Gekko might have advised looking into biotech...