Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Either SHERYL SWOOPES really loves to play basketball or the W.N.B.A. has lousy maternity leave. Six weeks after bringing forth a 7-lb. 9-oz. son, Jordan (named after Michael, natch), the Olympic gold medalist was patrolling the court, and getting past Phoenix Mercury's MIKIKO HAGIWARA for the Houston Comets. "The five minutes I played felt more like 15 or 20," she says, "but I'm amazed at myself. I'm not as far away from where I want to be as I thought." Swoopes, one of the best female players in the game...
...knew I was supposed to be here. My whole walk has been on faith." Along the way, Gillmore was hired as camp cook and promised a job in Salt Lake City. "I finally know what it means," he said, "to endure to the end." Ted Moore, a Missouri gold miner, gave a more humorous testament of faith. He dug through the pots and pans in his handcart and pulled out a dusty "Pioneer" Barbie doll. "She's going the whole way with me," Moore said. "Every step that I take, Barbie takes...
...strained the credibility of the average American in the late 1950s and '60s. He lived lavishly and consumed conspicuously: he owned Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and Stutz Blackhawks; bought a 96-passenger Convair 880 jet for $250,000, then spent $800,000 to have it customized, a project that included gold-plated seat-belt buckles and a queen-size bed. He once took a $16,000 flight to Denver to buy peanut-butter sandwiches...
However, Adams House dining services is building a covered skylight conservatory for extra dining hall seating in the courtyard beside the Gold Room, said Leonard D. Condenzio, associate director of dining services...
...Gold prices have steadily declined since the '80s because with roaring stock markets and low inflation worldwide, sitting on noninterest-bearing gold makes little sense for governments. "There's no point in holding it," says Dale Henderson, a gold specialist at the Federal Reserve. That's true for individuals too. It doesn't mean you should sell your jewelry at a discount. Inflation could someday return, and besides, T-bills make lousy necklaces...