Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This humdrum era for stocks, which analysts say could last at least several more years, has given new life to strategies designed to profit in a stalled market. All but vanquished during the long bull run of the 1990s, "market timers"--who try to catch a stock's highs and lows as it trades in a narrow range--are sprouting again. So are "market neutral" investors, who through options and other techniques try to hedge away any market movement but gain from temporary stock-price discrepancies...
Riversleigh's vast trove of fossils lets scientists see deep into the past - and unearth lessons for the future A certain type of person might regard Phil Creaser's life as a tiny bit humdrum. Fair-skinned and bespectacled, he works from a desk as a project coordinator in the Commonwealth public service, returning in the evenings to an empty house. In his free time, he keeps an eye on his elderly parents, loves a good trivia night, and has drinks every Friday evening with longstanding colleagues. Sporting interests? You bet: orienteering and rogaining, activities that allow him to indulge...
...humdrum, confused life of mid-twentysomethings has a ready accomplice in the sprawling shopping malls and freeway-bound office parks of New Jersey, the stuff that nightmares and dreams are made of for the expanse of anonymous, white-housed suburbia that hums between the on-ramps. The staples of quiet, middle-class Garden State living are all here, sans the last PATH train back from the city. Like those who’ve never been, Largeman (we can imagine him telling his L.A. friends he grew up in New York) has no inclination to go back, only an obligation...
...Cookbook, a lifestyle and culinary manual by Jeff Morgan, a Napa Valley vintner and journalist, and his social-worker wife Jodie, who are raising teenage daughters. Most of their 200 recipes take less than 30 minutes to prepare and feature straightforward directions. The dishes are wholesome but far from humdrum: salads range from Caesar to nicoise; entrees include tuna steaks and lamb chops. Says Jeff: "We're trying to help Americans rediscover that fast food can be good food and that the family dynamic will be enhanced by a healthy mealtime experience." --By Sonja Steptoe
...found these words leaving my mouth during yet another conversation about second-year life at Harvard. And over the past year, I’ve had more than a few of these humdrum chats, and I’ve seen enough going on with my fellow second-years that I can state confidently: The Sophomore Slump is real and, trust me, those of you feeling it are not alone. But take heart—a cure is closer than you think...