Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credit, Thomas-Graham does throw a little spice into the mix for good measure. Shortly after Nikki's investigation begins, she learns that an ex-boyfriend has returned to Harvard and will be taking an assistant professorship in the Government Department, replete with an office just downstairs from her own. Nikki had always imagined that her next encounter with the dashing Dante Rosario would find her stepping out of a limo on Wall Street in some chic Anne Klein suit. Instead, she's wearing a two-year old dress from Urban Outfitters and carrying her lunch in a plastic sack...
Really? No, not really. Well, not likely anyway. But that hasn't slowed the mounting angst over the Year 2000 glitch, particularly on the Internet, where the mix of technical savvy and suspicion is proving to be the perfect outlet for dire predictions. "I've never seen such hysterical projections, and I lived through the paranoia of the 1960s," says Nicholas Zvegintzov, president of Software Management Network, a Los Altos, Calif., company specializing in software maintenance...
...simpler plan is to rebalance each quarter to keep your desired mix of stocks, bonds and cash steady. That has the salutary effect of forcing you to sell the asset that has risen most and buy the bargains. Today that means swapping stocks for bonds and cash...
...than Le Corbusier. He was a tireless proselytizer, addressing the public in manifestos, pamphlets, exhibitions and his own magazine. He wrote books--dozens of them--on interior decoration, painting and architecture. They resembled instruction manuals. An example is his recipe for the International Style: raise the building on stilts, mix in a free-flowing floor plan, make the walls independent of the structure, add horizontal strip windows and top it off with a roof garden. But this makes him sound like a technician, and he was anything but. Although he dressed like a bureaucrat, in dark suits, bow ties...
Individually, three Harvard players--co-captain Mary Naber and freshmen Jesse Gunderson and Natasha Magnuson--qualified for the U.S. National Women's Water Polo "B" Team, a testament to the team's strong mix of young and veteran talent...