Word: goldings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Donald Straszheim, chairman of the research firm Straszheim Global Advisors. So a few years from now, when punters are urging you to buy shares in the U.K. simply because London will be hosting the 2012 Summer Games, remind them what happened the last time investors tried to bet on gold, silver and bronze. The Olympics effect is mostly in your head...
...examines Singapore on its own terms. Take the love with which she describes a Singaporean-Chinese cook in Queens: "In Singapore, there were men like him who sat around hawker centers at night over a Guinness Stout and a cigarette - men who wore open-necked shirts and small gold chains around their neck. They would sit for hours at a time, then grunt an observation, tap the cigarette on the ashtray and then shake their heads." Images like this make the reader want to read Poon on Singapore, not London, Toronto or New York City...
Though I had even higher aspirations, apparently my mom was so impressed with my graduation from sixth grade that she bought me a gift: an incredibly cool gold-chain necklace. The chain said to all who saw it, Sure, I may look like an honor student who is bad at sports and gets stomachaches before parties, but I am actually capable of horrific violence, passionate lovemaking and savage indifference to a tribe of orcs with my +2 broadsword. I wore that chain every day, from sixth grade to 17th grade, when my new girlfriend told me I had to take...
That chain still means a lot to me, symbolizing my triumphs against adversity, which include getting a job in journalism while wearing a gold chain. But lately I've been looking at that chain differently. With gold climbing from $275 an ounce in 2000 to an all-time high of more than $1,000 earlier this year, late-night commercials for companies like Cash4Gold--the 271st fastest-growing company in the country according to Inc. magazine and the most embarrassingly named company according to this one--are asking me to mail in my gold for cash. My chain, in these...
...really wanting to part with it, I called my mom to get her to talk me out of selling it. "When are you doing this?" she asked. "I have a lot of gold I'd love to get rid of. I wear more costumey, fun stuff. I think it's younger-looking." I do not have a particularly sentimental mother...