Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capturing the bulk of that new cash--and much of it is "automatic" in the form of 401(k) plans. That leaves hundreds of smaller players to fight for the scraps, according to Financial Research Corp. "There's a lot more risk now," says Jack Brennan, chairman of fund giant Vanguard, based in Valley Forge, Pa. "People may be looking for bigger, more seasoned names with a broader array of products. Or the investor may be making a bit of a market call, taking some risk off the table...
Some heroes took a giant leap for all humankind by journeys that were lonely by definition. The flight of Charles Lindbergh and the climb of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay showed where people can go on the planet if they have the wit and endurance. Their journeys were inward too, as all heroic endeavors are, but few in the century were more so than those undertaken by Anne Frank in her diary of the Holocaust, or Bill Wilson, who pioneered the 12-step approach to self-help that has transformed millions of lives...
While most students were packing giant cartons and lugging futons to house storage rooms, Joseph I. Lin '00 was practicing his violin...
...stormed the field that day; I wrote two articles that night. I called Hu a "giant among men." Forgive me, I was only a freshman...
...heads of the LGC are Edward M. Tate '99, Laura B. Zukerman '99, and Stephanie C. Field '99. Their connections to old money could be strong: Tate is a past president of the Porcellian club, and Field is a descendant of retail giant and Harvard alumnus Marshall Field...