Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The office towers of Midland are monuments to the high hopes and short memory of man. The downtown buildings, which rise 20 stories above the West Texas scrub, sprang up during the good years--mid-'50s, late '70s, early '90s--and stand half-empty during the bad. In 1973, Midland...
That doesn't mean the window is being slammed shut on Internet entrepreneurs. Far from it. The investors who really count in the IPO game are institutions, and they've all made plenty of money by buying at the IPO price. They will continue buying. There is little reason for...
Having made his point and rewarded his contributor, Bill Clinton is no longer in a fighting mood. The President blinked Wednesday in his staredown with Sen. James Inhofe over gay ambassador James Hormel, promising to notify the Senate of any appointments he plans to make while they?re out of...
Sometimes, though, I wonder whether he would have turned back if he'd known the life he was headed for.
William Griffith Wilson grew up in a quarry town in Vermont. When he was 10, his hard-drinking father headed for Canada, and his mother moved to Boston, leaving the sickly child with her parents. As a soldier, and then as a businessman, Wilson drank to alleviate his depressions and...