Word: locked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insane. Yes, that is correct. I am crazy. Put me in the loony bin. Lock me up and keep me away from small children and Harvard students. I am working three jobs this summer. 70 hours a week...
...very first thing Juan Romero wants you to know is that this isn't about him. "It's about Bobby," he says with eyes so shy they seldom lock onto you. "I'll do anything I have to if it keeps his name alive." Juan is 47 now, and the boy is gone. He is darkly handsome and strong, and his hands are callused because he works for a paving company, drives trucks, rakes asphalt. He has just got off work, and he slides into a booth at a little restaurant near his home in San Jose, Calif. For years...
...traumatic event permeates the narrative--a grim reminder that great enterprises may demand great sacrifices. Holbrooke's frantic pre-Dayton shuttle often took him to three countries in a single day. Once all the parties had been safely corralled in Ohio, he unleashed a classic 21-day exercise in lock-up, great-power diplomacy. The outcome of this exhausting and often acrimonious marathon was in doubt until literally the very last hour...
After Bill Clinton and Tony Blair finish with the elegant dinners and toasts at the G-8 summit this week in England, the real fun begins: the two leaders will lock themselves in a room with a clutch of top officials to talk about government policy for four or five hours. The Sunday meeting at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country mansion north of London, will be the third such bilateral seminar, following one at the White House, when Blair visited in February, and the inaugural 12-hr. "wonkathon" at Chequers in November, when Hillary Clinton...
...allure of do-it-yourself trading is transforming both Wall Street and Main Street. Traditional brokerages, whose lock on vital information made them the market's gatekeepers, are changing their approach, and their fees. Meanwhile, a frenzied mob of e-traders has linked itself to a rapidly growing number of web trading sites. Today there are over 60 e-brokers, more than twice the number of a year ago. Many are electronic branches of such giants as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments, but others, like E*Trade and Datek Online, dwell mainly in cyberspace. The e-brokerages themselves have been...