Word: hmm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...minutes to airtime, and Jim Cramer is pacing the set like a caged beast. He scans the five screens on his desk, stops, punches some keys. "Hmm. The Chinese Google plays are up," he mumbles. He furrows his brows, pokes a few more keys. "Whoa. Wells Fargo gave up on the brokerage business." He's talking aloud to himself, which is fine, because this is just a warm-up for the barrage of instant analysis he is about to unleash. Cramer's knack for quick distillation enabled him to build a fortune as a fast-trading hedge-fund manager...
...Hmm. No, that was not a favorite of mine...
...Woman's View of Watergate, but insists that the new one is "totally fiction." A Woman Lost, due in July from former Senate Wives Abigail McCarthy and Jane Muskie, is a "suspense novel" involving the wife of a Vice President who is hospitalized against her will; hmm, would Martha Mitchell mind? This month will also mark the publication of Conglomerate, by former Congressional Spouse Rita Jenrette; it's a racy story about takeover attempts in both bedroom and boardroom...
...published in “Nature,” that wearing the color red in athletic competition is associated with a higher probability of victory. It is further believed that this effect is intensified when the color red’s cousin, Crimson, is worn by genetically superior humans. Hmm...
...futuristic drama V for Vendetta. In this next film from the makers of the Matrix trilogy, Portman plays a suspected terrorist in a totalitarian state. Days after the shoot, she says, "I can't stop rubbing my head. It's so soft, I might keep it for a while." Hmm, a hot new bald star with action-adventure experience? Somewhere Vin Diesel's agent is quietly freaking...