Word: moments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spokesperson for Century Real Estate said "at the moment I don't think we have any specific tenant lined up." Sanel, however, pointed out that workers had come into the store earlier to measure the space...
...moment, then, is try to make sense of the options before us and question our place and privilege in the world. The most pernicious aspect of the entrenched recruiting system is that it precludes this challenge to a large degree. Flipping through the advertisements in The Crimson or paying a visit to OCS creates the absurd impression that there is only one thing to do next year--make money...
...precisely at this awful moment that Henry Luce, the visionary Yalie who had fathered the newsmagazine in 1923, sought to produce a "literature of business." He wanted something much more than the stock quotes and carloading stats that dominated business journalism, and he got it by starting what he called "the Tycoon's own magazine," FORTUNE. The monthly was elegant, oversize, printed on parchment; amazingly priced at $10 a year; the originator of the lengthy, often condemning, corporation story--and an instant...
...thing, but what the hell to do with it? A business story's got no blood, no guts, no prime time. So business is left largely to expert talking heads. On cable, market-oriented business networks are surging like hot IPOs, but sometimes they give us information overload. The moment-to-moment changes in the major stock averages flash nervously on Bloomberg News; the stock tickers scroll rapidly on CNBC and CNNfn, citing the latest prices of individual shares; today's "stocks to watch" are featured on almost all the channels. All this encourages quick in-and-out trading, usually...
...Station Zebra often enough. Yet for every celebrity eccentric, a dozen more labored in obscurity. Who remembers Brian Hughes? This 1920s box-manufacturing tycoon liked nothing better than to patrol the sidewalk outside Tiffany in New York City, an envelope tucked beneath his arm. When the moment seemed right, and pedestrian traffic sufficient, Hughes would let loose its contents, sending a spray of jewels (all fake) clattering across the sidewalk. The melee that ensued never ceased to please him. On rainy days, he would exit a restaurant and deliberately leave behind an expensive umbrella. When opened by a misappropriater...