Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter, she calmly reflects. "There really isn't much else to do with your money besides the stock market. There's no money in CDs or in the banks. And gold is ridiculous." Doroshow is emblematic of the massive faith in stocks that has gripped individuals across the country. Macie Huwiler, a Chicago advertising executive, is another such investor. "I'm one of those people who are basically blase" about the market, she says. "Virtually everything I have is in my 401(k), and since I can't touch any of it, I sort of figure, what the hell. There...
...upbeat. People will get the message. Stress long-term, but don't smile, don't laugh and don't be glib." Sure enough, 10 minutes later, 10 excruciating minutes after I gave my first downbeat, frowning talk on GMA, my cell phone rang. "What's the matter?" my wife asked. "Who died? How can you be so negative...
...tone was all scare. You could see the market aflame even before Biggs had finished spraying lighter fluid. Within minutes I heard traders tell me everything from "Biggs thinks this is the end" to "Biggs says get out now because the market's gonna crash today." No matter that Biggs had been wrong before, including a devastating get-out-of-tech call right at the bottom in 1996. Biggs has clout; he could do damage...
Saddam Hussein is like a punching bag. No matter how many times you hit him, he just keeps coming back in your face. This time the Iraqi dictator decreed that Americans would no longer be allowed on the 40-member U.N. inspection team that is hunting for remnants of his weapons programs. He stopped three U.S. inspectors from disembarking in Baghdad last Thursday, sending their plane back to Bahrain, and threatened to kick the other 10 Americans on the team out of his country this week. On Saturday, Saddam produced a mob of angry demonstrators who burned American flags...
...only dimly, reflected in the 1975 Joy: the mounting ubiquity of microwave ovens and such once obscure utensils as the Cuisinart and the wok; the explosion of ethnic restaurants and cuisines; and the widespread disappearance of housewives into workplaces, making more and more weekday suppers a matter of heating up whatever someone in the family had the foresight to bring home from the take...