Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Growing up in the South, each must have known people like the other: the golden boy for whom everything came easily and the grind who worked himself to the nub. The one who cut corners and the one who squared them. The one who never got caught and the one who never did anything worth catching...
...golden days have not returned for the firm, where management must now report to an oversight committee. The original investors, relegated to a measly 10% share of the fund, have recovered only a sliver of their pre-August stakes. Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating whether Long Term Capital violated securities laws by withholding information on its financial health. Moreover, the entire debacle may prompt long-term changes in the hedge-fund industry: Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is examining whether such funds should be more closely regulated. --Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York...
...night the scandal broke, I watched from a few feet away in the State Dining Room as the President and his wife Hillary honored people who had helped restore the old mansion to its current grandeur. The scandal raged outside, and in a soft, golden light, Clinton sat, chin up, eyes steady, outwardly untouched beneath the portrait of Abraham Lincoln as his wife talked of their love of the White House and its legends. I wondered then (and still do) if there would ever be a reconciliation of the forces at war within this young man and, because...
...Renebome say they never saw any beatings. Larry and Monty shared a bedroom and took baths together; Larry says he would have known. And, he says, there was no killing. Both young brothers were riding with their dad, Larry says. There was a fight in front of the Golden Dragon. "A man was down. Dad got out, and someone gave him a jacket to put under the guy's head." End of incident. Skeeter Garcia-Innocenti, then one of Marvin's riding students and now a Salinas police clerk, says there is no record of any such attempted holdup...
...habitat. Everywhere is a sign of life and death. We pass gaping holes in the earth that giant armadillos call home, and the shell of an armadillo that a jaguar called lunch. A microteiid lizard shoots along a palm leaf lying close to where a column of golden ants marches across our trail...