Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Once people are in we really invest in them,"she says. "[We expect that they will] fulfilltheir end of the contract. We want to know whowe're getting...
...awfully good at this sort of thing. You might say they've been practicing since they were (relatively speaking) kids. By this time they instinctively know how to bring out the comic best in each other -- Matthau's bullying misanthropy, Lemmon's melancholic good cheer. It follows that they invest Grumpy Old Men, in which they play querulous neighbors, with an appeal that is nostalgic and, if you are a devotee of well- practiced shtick, technically seamless...
...start racking up interest charges. There is also the small matter of what to do with this cheap money once you've borrowed it. Hmmm. You could use it to pay down some higher-interest credit line, at least temporarily, and save a little money that way. You could invest it in whatever you plan to do with your tax refund, only a month early. Or maybe you'd just enjoy seeing the money in your checking account earning enough interest to cover the $20 service charge and impressing both the bank and AT&T with the size...
That doesn't mean, however, that anyone should rush to invest in fusion futures. Impressive as Tokamak's achievement was, the $1.6 billion machine generated only one-eighth as much power as it consumed. The next day the reactor managed to generate more than 5 million watts. But even its eventual goal of 10 million will still be only half of the incoming energy. The experiment is an important milestone, but fusion power is still a long way from being commercially useful...
Lastly, flowers give that final holiday touch to any home; for a thousand dollars, why not invest in 250 poinsetta stems (they may have multiple blooms), or 500 boxes of mistletoe (if you go with this option, consider 115 ounces of the Body Shop's Kiwi lip balm, 1440 Mass. Ave.), 166.66 pounds of holly or 50 Christmas trees, all from the Brattle Square Florists, 31 Brattle Street...