Word: groupe
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...visit to Rome last year, Boris Yeltsin chided a group of Italian journalists graced with a Kremlin audience. "It's a pity your Prime Ministers change so often," he said. "It makes things complicated..." Indeed. For a year and a half now, ever since Yeltsin began his ritual of sending his Prime Ministers packing on sudden notice, his rivals have spoken with solemn delight of Yeltsin's diminishing physical and mental state. Last week, however, when he fired his fourth Prime Minister in 17 months, even former loyalists joined Yeltsin's opponents in naming the culprit behind the latest beheading...
While some detractors accuse Harris, who is white, of racism, she shrugs it off. Her husband, a surgical technician, is African American. Her three grown biological sons are biracial. The four children they adopted are black. The women who have accepted her offer so far constitute a mixed group: 26 Caucasians, 24 African Americans and 11 Hispanics. From her narrow kitchen, where the fax machine is wedged between the microwave and the electric grill pan, Harris heaps scorn on the naysayers as she whips up cheese sandwiches for lunch. "The people who yell the loudest aren't the ones raising...
...yourself investors and full-time day traders couldn't have less in common. One group researches stocks, tries to get comfortable with the products and the financials, and then buys and holds. The other does little research, never wants to be comfortable with the stocks, and buys and sells the stocks over and over again. Yet the media can't tell them apart. As the New York Times stated so ineloquently in its umpteenth article lumping together these diametrically opposed camps, they are both part of the "do-it-yourself craze" that is causing people to lose millions and millions...
There's just one catch: it can't be done. A report from the Day Trading Project Group of the North American Securities Administrators Association showed conclusively last week that the majority of people attempting to day-trade professionally lose "everything they invest." Does this sound similar to casino gambling? It is. Both involve bets on random moves that come with heavy tariffs and that ensure it's a rare gambler who can beat the house over time...
After Salt Lake City's Olympic-bribery scandal forced the resignation or dismissal of 10 IOC members, the head of the Atlanta Olympic Committee, Billy Payne, said his group won the 1996 Games without resorting to underhanded tactics. "We did not bribe anyone," he said in February. "We did not make cash payments. We did not give outrageous gifts." And in a June report to the House Commerce Committee investigating violations of federal bribery laws in Olympic bids, Payne and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young attested to only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit...