Word: greeks
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...Western travelers who put off trips to Asia year after year?to avoid being suffocated by haze, menaced by anti-Western mobs, blown up by terrorist bombs or sickened by weird plagues?simply forget why they wanted to come in the first place? Because compared with all that, a Greek villa or a Caribbean condo is starting to look really rather attractive...
...matter of sympathos. That's a Greek word from pathos--to understand and feel together. We share a clarity in the way you say things: yes is yes, no is no. We also share an ideal that whoever is the leader must show the people the right road. We only met two years ago, but I feel I know him like I know my grammar school friends...
...President Bush are both businessmen who became political leaders. Is there a bond you share? It's a matter of sympathos. That's a Greek word from pathos?to understand and feel together. We share a clarity in the way you say things: yes is yes, no is no. We also share an ideal that whoever is the leader must show the people the right road. We only met two years ago, but I feel I know him like I know my grammar school friends...
...spelling bees all the way to their participation in the nationals. It works "as human comedy and suspense," says Urman. The other currently hot docs, Capturing the Friedmans ($1 million gross) and the birds-in-flight eye-popper Winged Migration (more than $4 million), are, he says, respectively a "Greek tragedy" and a "spectacle...
...oddest beneficiary of all this attention is preferred stocks, whose market has been shrinking until recently. Like the centaurs and griffins of Greek mythology, "preferreds" are a peculiar blend of two beasts. Like bonds, preferred shares usually pay high current income--dividends that lately pay up to 9% or 10% (that's good). On the other hand, like common stocks, preferreds have only a junior claim on assets if a company goes bust--so in a bankruptcy you could be left with nothing (that...