Word: linings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haunted by voices, and stalked the campus with a video camera, trying to prove that people were manipulating him with psychic messages. "It occurred to me that I was losing my mind, but it was only a fleeting thought," Williamson recalls. "I thought the whole mental-illness line of thought was just a trick designed to mislead and oppress...
...stocks is growing more off kilter. The average first-day gain for an Internet IPO has swelled from 30% early last year to 153% the first three months of this year, Commscan reports. Meanwhile, first-day gains in non-Net IPOs generally have been 10% to 20%, in line with historical averages. The gross underpricing of Internet IPOs this deep into a trend should tell you something: those closest to the companies don't believe the valuations are sustainable. Companies, underwriters and maybe 200 institutions first in line for IPOs set prices using a discipline based on some multiple...
...interact with the Net. When you create a Word document, for instance, you can save it in the Web's native language, HTML, and upload it to your website. Or add hypertext links to your Word file, or implant e-mail addresses without knowing how to write a line of code. And when Word converts your text to HTML, it saves your formatting so that headline-size fonts, italic text and so on show up online pretty much as they appeared on your screen. Likewise, if you save your files to a Web server, co-workers can grab, change...
John Pierpont Morgan is usually "depicted...as a ruthless predator who robbed America's farmers and workers to line his own pockets," writes Jean Strouse. But halfway through her first draft of Morgan: American Financier (Random House; 796 pages; $34.95), she realized that the picture she was getting from plowing through a mass of Morgan documents, many of which no previous biographer had seen, was far more complex. Starting over, she has produced a more balanced and crisply written--though at times unnecessarily detailed--portrait than her subject could ever have drawn. History, Strouse observes, is written by "the articulate...
Smith, it turned out, was badly in need of a joke writer. The line he keeps using in speeches is, "We have a character in the White House; what we need is someone with character in the White House." This was going to be easy money...