Word: hille
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barry Munitz, the commission's vice chair and chancellor of California State University, added that convincing Congress of financial aid's effectiveness as a solution to the rising cost of higher education is "an up-hill battle...
...charts graphically update portfolios throughout the day, and investors can even create "watch lists," or mock portfolios, that monitor alternative investment options. These tools would normally sit on a broker's desk but are now accessible to anyone. "The playing field is slowly starting to be leveled," says Chris Hill, spokesman for the popular Motley Fools, an online investment-advisory forum. "More and more, the individual investor has the tools available at his or her fingertips to compete with the traders on Wall Street." The trend will surely increase--but preferably under less stressful conditions...
Monday afternoon, I drove into town for gas and stopped at the self-service, and the pump wouldn't work. Gas wouldn't come out. So I drove down the hill to another self-service, and I got about a dollar's worth in when a heavy-set woman strode up and said, "You just come from the Stop 'N Shop?" I said I had. "You drove away without paying for your gas," she said...
...manager of the station up the hill, and she had chased me in her car. She said I owed her $3.79. I told her that was wrong. The pump at her station didn't work. No gas came through the nozzle. Not a penny's worth. The pump dial showed all zeros. "Check my gas gauge," I said. "The needle is way below empty...
...secret to his success is simple: pick people who pick catchy songs. He should know, having written the 1966 hit Sweet Talkin' Guy. "He's the only person heading a music distributor who's had success at two major companies," says author Fred Goodman, whose Mansion on the Hill traces the ascent of music moguls. Perhaps the most tantalizing part of his latest job is competing with his old employer. "I don't feel any need for vindication," says Morris about Warner. "That's not to say I don't want our company to be the industry leader, because...