Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gone from the firm's surviving entity, Lehman Bros.), had they concocted a decade as fruitful as this one turned out to be, they would have been dismissed as shameless touts. And they did get a few things right, including a national budget surplus and an enduring expansion without much inflation. But most enlightening by far is that the 57 stocks in their portfolio walloped the S&P 500 over 10 years, proving again that patience--not brilliance--is the way to prosper in the stock market...
...because I invest so much love and hope in Apple, it maddens me when the company falls short of its plug-and-play promise. And too often it does. Take the AirPort and iBook setup I tested. The idea behind it is deliciously simple; the setup was another story...
...Much wailing and gnashing of teeth later, I called Apple's tech support. Its first suggestion was to hook up my iBook to the base station with an Ethernet cable--not included--and do a "hardware reset." Did someone say wireless? Eventually, an Apple product manager discovered the fault. Turns out AirPort needs the arcane "name server address" from my Internet service provider, something it had not asked for during the plug-and-play software setup...
...would besiege their doctors and pharmacists for these medicines. But there is one very serious side effect to all of them: the expense. Traditional NSAIDS can cost as little as 20[cents] a pill; the new COX-II inhibitors, by contrast, will set you back about 15 times as much. As for Remicade, the first year's supply is expected to run about...
Still, after plowing through the facts of this Kennedy's life, one wonders what Clymer makes of this man. Is Ted Kennedy a failure? Were the burdens of these public tragedies he endured too much for anyone to bear and thus responsible for the youngest brother's shortcomings? Clymer chooses not to say very much. The final chapter is only 10 pages long and recounts Kennedy's role as a counselor to Bill Clinton during the Monica thing. Here the experience of his own humiliations was brought to bear. Clinton is quoted saying that Kennedy's advice was always simple...