Word: luck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evasions don't work, and when they fail, the President's memory fails too. Early in his first presidential campaign, he was asked how he had managed to avoid the draft. "I was just lucky, I guess," he replied (twinkle, twinkle). Only later, of course, did we discover that luck, as Mae West might have said, had nothing to do with it. As a candidate, he remembered almost none of the artful maneuvers and broken commitments that had allowed him to escape military service. "I'd been in public life a long time," he said, to explain his memory lapses...
That will take three to four years. And a 1995 law, intended to cut down on frivolous class-action suits, stacks the deck against you. But in cases in which there's serious evidence of fraud--not just bad luck or bad investing--there are some things to consider. Don't hang on to the losing stock unless you believe it will rebound. Your loss is calculated from the date when any alleged shenanigans become known...
...divided his time between his parents' home in Valmeyer, Ill., and a shack on a half-acre plot in Rimini, Mont., a dirt-road hamlet in the shadow of Red Mountain named by isolated Irish miners smitten by a touring performance of Tchaikovsky. He panned for gold with little luck, tinkered with junked cars and lived on government disability payments that were based on a history of mental illness. Neighbors knew enough to keep a polite distance; he used to tell them he was John F. Kennedy's illegitimate...
...whom were hospitalized--and an additional 159 were suspected of being infected, making it the largest waterborne outbreak of O157 in the U.S. So far none of the Alpine victims have died; given the bacteria's low but consistent mortality rate, however, that is as much a stroke of luck as anything else...
GESTURES: Your mother was right. Don't point. But if in Singapore you must, use your thumb, not your forefinger, lest it be taken as an insult or obscenity. In Russia, don't shake hands across a threshold; it might invite bad luck. In Buddhist lands like Burma, don't pat a child on the head; it's the spiritually highest part of the body...