Word: kind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answer is that little thing called human dignity. According to the libertarians' markets-for-everything logic, a poor mother ought equally to be allowed to sell herself into slavery--or any other kind of degradation--to send her kids through college. Our society, however, draws the line and says no. We have a free society, but freedom stops at the point where you violate the very integrity of the self (which is why prostitution is illegal...
...understand how, it helps to know two facts familiar to every Baltimore fan. The Orioles have the third highest payroll ($80 million) in major league baseball. And they have the American League's worst record. That's the kind of capitalist contradiction that Fidel Castro loves to exploit. Dirt poor but sports crazed, Cuba boasts one of the world's richest lodes of baseball talent--and proved it in Baltimore, as its stars savaged Oriole pitchers for 18 hits. (Mercifully, the Cubans, who use aluminum bats at home, had only a month to train with wooden ones...
...world economy may be ready for a coordinated growth spurt. That promises to increase demand for manufactured goods, the equipment needed to make them and the raw materials that go into them. Indeed, commodities prices have been edging higher for a month. Cyclical companies can raise prices in that kind of environment, which makes them far less vulnerable to the dark side of economic growth--inflation and higher interest rates. If rates, which have also been going up, keep rising, it will let air out of a lot of consumer stocks, like Wal-Mart and Merck. Tech stocks would also...
...after a while, I kind of did find their warped sense of community appealing. Not the part where they showed each other snapshots they took of upcoming Yoda Pepsi cans, but the part where they played Trivial Pursuit on the sidewalk, wrote "Fan of the Day" stories about each other for the website and held a dating-game contest. It was like a freshman dorm at a college where somebody in admissions misplaced the women's applications...
...education and not gaining enough to justify it. "I realized I would probably get more out of two years of work," says Mawn. "I've also watched my older sisters juggle law careers and new babies, and I'd rather have the option of taking that kind of time off in five years...