Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flooding would be especially disastrous if people seeking to escape torrential rains and falling debris were to take shelter in subway stations. The report didn't estimate casualties, but observed that storms "that would present low to moderate hazards in other regions of the country could result in heavy loss of life...
...money is made in suburban video stores. Almost as much is earned on cable-TV systems that make sexually explicit films available on pay-per-view and adult channels. Steve Hirsch, president of Los Angeles-based Vivid Video, the world's largest producer of adult films, dismisses the loss of Times Square: "We're not going to lose any customers...
...Hannah says she always identified with Morticia as a child. "She was such a graceful, sick, twisted and sexy mother." Of course, Morticia never lived in a tepee--which is where Hannah, who spells it tipi, spends a lot of time between movies. Those of you who bemoan the loss of Hannah's golden tresses can take comfort in the thought that at least she didn't take the part of Uncle Fester...
Though Breath, Eyes, Memory caught Oprah's eye, Danticat's The Farming of Bones is a richer, more resonant work. There is magic and loss on nearly every page. At one point in the novel, a man who has been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking...
...stock that got hammered as the market fell this summer: your bright little idea may get pounded even more this fall as fellow shareholders sell to lock in tax advantages by year's end. Tough out there, huh? By acting now, though, you can turn the expected "tax-loss selling" into an opportunity. There are some extra risks and costs, but they don't amount to much if you have losers that you expect to sell anyway. The basic strategy is to dump your dogs now, so that when the crowd starts doing it in November, you'll be waiting...