Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AFTER ANOTHER, THE INstant millionaires and even billionaires have been appearing, brought forth by the stock market's magic. Last Aug. 9, Netscape, a Mountain View, California, software company, sold stock to the public for the first time. By the end of the day, the shares owned by chairman James Clark were worth $566 million. Netscape's technical whiz, Marc Andreessen, who is 24 years old, was suddenly worth $58 million. In November the net worth of Pixar chairman Steve Jobs increased more than $1.1 billion in a single day when the company, responsible for the computer-animated hit movie...
...long ago, Magic was the poster boy for how to avoid AIDS. Now he is The Man to show people how to deal with it. "Enjoy life," he says. "Live. I'm not just talking about people with HIV or AIDS, but about people with problems or handicaps or whatever. For people who have HIV, come out and share your life with somebody and make them feel better. Try to hold it among parents or brothers or sisters. People put so much pressure on themselves by holding it to themselves. You carry a lot of weight when you keep...
...Magic has reminded the world, the time remaining doesn't matter as much as what you do with that time...
...MAGIC JOHNSON DEMONSTRATed last week that being infected with the AIDS virus no longer prevents one from living an active life. Medical science has made steady progress in the 15 years since AIDS appeared in the U.S.--most dramatically in treating the devastating secondary infections in the later stages. There is still no cure, and a vaccine is nowhere in sight, but hardly a week goes by without some advance on the AIDS front...
...first tested positive in 1983, he is in remarkably good health. "I'm from a socioeconomic group that had careers," he notes. "We've been able to keep our insurance or afford to take it on ourselves." Not everyone is as fortunate as Roll. Or, for that matter, Magic Johnson...