Word: keeper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ewing says that 15 to 20 years from now Bush "will either be a good, hardworking zoo keeper, or else King Kong Bushman of some professional wrestling association...
With the phenomenal success of their film The Matrix ($27.7 million in its opening weekend), brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski confirmed that in Hollywood, being your brother's keeper--and co-director--can make your mother very proud indeed...
Harvard fought back from the Brown rally with two goals of its own to increase its lead to 6-3. Buttles zipped a low shot past Brown keeper Strider Dickson (19 saves) off an assist from Watson. McGown scored unassisted with three minutes left, fighting his way through traffic to send Harvard into the half up three...
...image out of my mind: "Mr. McGwire, I think I have something that belongs to you," 22-year-old Tim Forneris, a part-time grounds keeper for the St. Louis Cardinals, proudly decreed last fall as he handed over home-run ball No. 62--and with it probably the most expensive thing he would ever hold. Consider: a few weeks ago, a mysterious bidder paid $3 million to the guy who auctioned off home-run ball No. 70. I don't mean to pick on Forneris. Giving up the baseball was an honorable gesture. And he did get some fame...
...starters, Forneris was plain wrong about the ball's belonging to McGwire. Once the grounds keeper got his mitts on it, the ball was his. Says so right on every ticket to the game. He probably knew that and was thinking in grand, symbolic terms. Still, his act betrays a mind-set that leads many of us into grave errors in daily money matters. Here are Forneris' missteps and what you can learn from them...