Word: list
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...video-like sequence, a distraught Manuela peruses the local transvestite meat market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look like an authentic woman: "almond shaped eyes, 80,000, silicone in lips, forehead, cheeks, and ass--the liter costs 60,000 pesetas; you add it up, because I stopped counting. Tits? Two. I'm no monster." Agrado's entry into the action gives...
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...list matters because the stock market is every analyst's favorite hobby. Shemmer and the other analysts trade stock prices like sports scores, bragging loudly about their stocks from their desks. Shemmer has more than $11,000 of his own money invested in the market, mostly in risky, especially volatile "penny stocks" that can be bought in huge quantities. "Make your fucking move!" he shouts at one dawdling stock. But he's proud of a company called Zamba, which started out in the morning at $5 a share. It's up to $5.50 by the time he settles down...
...Shemmer already has a list of potential targets this morning, compiled from every possible source--ads, word-of-mouth from friends, industry newsletters, random searches on the Web, even advice from competitors. Creativity pays off. One analyst hunts down computer science majors at MIT to find out where graduates are headed. As we browse one start-up's Web site, Shemmer notices that its on-line customer response forms are maintained by a company he's never heard of. That company immediately goes on the list...
...early November, the MFT proposed a list of 20 changes to the process. Among them, the union said it supports repealing waivers that allow uncertified--but qualified--teachers to teach in certain areas...