Word: goode
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lemon candies pucker cheeks and make eyes round. Powdered seeds of rare, blistering Thai peppers can easily be concealed as a light red dust on the end of a pencil. An innocent chewing of the eraser will give the tongue a burning wake-up jolt that should last a good 15 minutes...
...struggles to light the cigar in a stiff wind. Then, at last, victory! His smooth puffing lasts until his shift ends. "It's my drawback," he declares on a Tuesday evening in October in the Mather office. "All the students know where I am, from my cigars. They're good to smoke. It relaxes you. Many people smoke one after a good dinner, to relax before dessert. I smoke one after I finish my final round of the building...
...tokens, so to speak, of their country. I've smoked one and am saving the other, but I don't know for how long." He shook his head, looked at the cigar closely as if it were something to reckon with, and exclaims, "Whooo." The difference between a good cigar and a bad cigar is spitting, Billy explains. "Bad cigars taste very bad. With a bad cigar, you're always lighting it, fighting the canoe. You like to have a cigar that burns evenly. I smoke only one a day, maybe two," he says. "And if I have a cold...
...haven't even left Shemmer's apartment yet, but it looks good...
...compared to as much as 100 at larger banks. At the biggest firms, the partners conduct "bed checks"--stopping by each cubicle at 9 p.m. to make sure analysts are still at work. At Broadview, I'm assured, you might even get out the door by 7 on a good day. The style is strictly "business casual," which means no one under 30 wears a tie. Shemmer stresses how friendly the senior partners are, how receptive they are to analysts. It sounds suspiciously like a PR presentation for a hapless recruit. (Of course you'll have access to your professors...