Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Cleland, chief investment strategist at fund company Security Benefit Group, is so convinced that stocks will "melt up" next month that he has begun a special marketing campaign to attract new money by year's end. "Y2K will be the biggest nonevent in history," he predicts. "The door will not be wide enough for everyone who wants to buy stocks in January...
...months, Moscow and Washington have quarreled over how many spies to let into each other's country under diplomatic cover. The Russians feel the U.S. has been stingy; the U.S. says the Russians have been "brazen and blatant," but "we've thwarted" them. The tension broke last week in Moscow with the arrest of CHERI LEBERKNIGHT, 33, ostensibly a U.S. embassy official but actually a CIA spy, according to the Russians. More schoolmarm than Mata Hari in looks, she was snatched late Monday with "ink tablets for secret correspondence" and equipment for detecting surveillance, says Moscow. Administration and intelligence officials...
...This month the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter gets his chance to be heard. Brion, 35, composed the introspective instrumental score to Paul Thomas Anderson's film Magnolia (Anderson is a longtime friend of Brion's) and produced five songs on the sound track (including Aimee Mann's intimate cover of the Harry Nilsson standard One). Brion also produced Fiona Apple's terrific...
...drugs to drive down their cholesterol and reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke. Now a study whose results stunned even the researchers shows that the same statins can reverse osteoporosis--at least in rats. New bone formation increased 50% in lab animals receiving statin drugs for a month, far exceeding the effect of today's osteoporosis options, such as hormone-replacement therapy and Fosamax. The true litmus test: trials on humans, which have yet to begin...
...That song, Rock and Roll Part II, was performed by GARY GLITTER. Last month Glitter was convicted in England for possessing child pornography. Many teams--including the Oilers, Flames, Maple Leafs and Raptors--pulled the song from their arena's heavy rotation lists. But don't worry. That means more We Will Rock...