Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most TV coverage has been Shannon Lucid: plucky, hard-luck astronaut sentenced to six months of sponge baths and Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please? Is monitoring bone decalcification the reason we ventured into the cosmos in the first place...
...Iran. Elsewhere in the gulf, that sentiment is widely endorsed as part of the regional balance of power. Many are concerned that Washington has lost sight of the larger picture. What the U.S. really has to handle is not one devil but two--and it may be letting one grow perilously large while it is trying, however unsuccessfully, to cut the other down to size...
...hire out of college or business school starts as an analyst and is also given a "small" fund--something in the range of $100 million--to run. Within a few years, the analyst should become a full-time manager, overseeing a moderate-size fund that will be allowed to grow to several billion dollars. The system draws criticism. "Can 31-year-old portfolio managers manage $10 billion portfolios on their own?" asks David O'Leary of Alpha Equity Research Inc., an institutional brokerage and research firm that tracks Fidelity's sector and stock movement. "They may be brilliant M.B.A.s...
...should you do with your money? While Fidelity still has plenty of chart toppers and more mutual-fund dollars than any of its competitors, there are today hundreds of other companies running 6,085 funds tailored to every investing whim imaginable. This staggering number of funds--which continues to grow almost daily--is both a blessing and a curse. Let no one ever say he can't find a fund that matches his investing goals. But on the other hand, how in the world do you ever decide which fund...
Spartan as Mir is, its science facilities are first rate, and Lucid, a biochemist, spent much of her time aloft studying how the space environment affects living tissue and how protein crystals grow in zero gravity. Like others who have tried to live and work in space, however, she found that the living part doesn't always go as well as the working part...