Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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1880s Experimentation A Connecticut candy merchant puts chocolate-caramel taffy on a stick; it's easier...
...while representing Coke. The two cola giants went wheel to wheel to roll up Gordon's endorsement, one measure of the man's crossover status as a national marketing icon. With two Winston Cup stock-car championships in the past three seasons, the California-born, Indiana-honed speed merchant is one of the hottest athletes in an even hotter sport...
...members' near monopoly on government positions--and a scandal over the mysterious disappearance of a brother who broke secrecy--provoked the birth of American single-issue politics: the Anti-Masonic Party nearly wiped the group out. The Masons eventually bounced back as the preferred club of the country's merchant class--the Strauss family reportedly built Masonic columns into New York City's Macy's--and again as political incubator. The two Roosevelts, Tom Dewey and Harry Truman all belonged. After World War II, G.I.s who had enjoyed its patriotic but egalitarian flavor abroad returned to swell the lodges...
Parse the language and it means many banks have a new sideline: gambling. "Derivatives have turned the financial markets into a hi-tech, international, 24-hour casino," notes Richard Thomson, a former merchant banker and author of a book published in London, Apocalypse Roulette: The Lethal World of Derivatives. "Right now you have a small number of banks sharing a very large risk. But this could turn out to be a serious problem if these banks are in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...Natalie Merchant, the former lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs, is releasing her second solo album, Ophelia, this week...