Word: greate
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Late 20th century entrepreneurs have invented high-adrenaline sports--hang-gliding, say, or canyoning. But the riskiest adventure is still to set forth upon open water and take a chance when, as the great single-handed sailor Joshua Slocum wrote a century ago, "the sea is in its grandest mood...
...doctor's true passion is listening to classical music, preferably that composed by the great melodists of the 19th century. The literary equivalent of melody is, of course, story, the engaging what-next of narrative prose. Hansen's tersely told tale hangs expectantly on the outcome of Mistress Blum's treatment, which unexpectedly includes the arcane input of the enchanting Madame Helena Barrett and her spiritualist friends...
...thought two opinionated women in the same kitchen would bicker, and of course we didn't. From the minute we started cooking together we got on really well. And our experiences as the show became successful were so strange. In America we were greeted, much to my surprise, with great glee. At one point we were the fourth best-selling book in Los Angeles. They can only have read it for pornography, we thought--they live off lettuce leaves! When we were at a lunch in Australia, there were these 800 people waving their table napkins around and cheering...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataBut that doesn?t necessarily mean that confidence will still be there at 2:15 p.m. (ET) Tuesday, when The Great Greenspan clears his throat. "There?s always that bit of uncertainty as the day draws near," Baumohl says. Come noon, along with the profit-taking from Monday to contend with, there?ll be plenty of investors who don?t feel quite as smart as they did the day before. No hike? Twice the hike? Rally? Sell-off? Stay out of it until Greenspan?s gospel (2:15 p.m.) is fully digested. For the record...
However, after reviewing more than 30 boxes of documents from the Georgia Amateur Athletics Foundation, investigators say there were many gifts worth more than $1,000, including offers of scholarships to IOC family members. In fact, the discrepancies were so great that earlier this month the law firm that represented the city's Olympic committee asked Commerce if it could "amend" the report. Let's hope it is right this time...