Word: nebraskas
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...hour's drive, all to spend three days in the orbit of the native son whose investing prowess has turned him into the world's richest man--and who has taken his shareholders along for the very lucrative ride. Attendees shopped at Berkshire-owned companies (Borsheim's Fine Jewelry, Nebraska Furniture Mart); ate where Buffett likes to eat (Gorat's Steak House); tried to beat him at bridge (they didn't); and spent five hours grilling him and his closest confidant, vice chairman Charlie Munger, on everything from owning 8% of Kraft Foods to how the price of tungsten will...
...wherein cheerful Ronald Reagan lost his legs to a sadistic doctor. Me, I'd probably pick something like Boys Don't Cry, for which Hillary Swank won her first Oscar playing out a transgender tragedy on the flat and (as the camera saw them) fallow plains of Nebraska...
...room. Two associates and I decided to crash the party, which was easy. To make a long story short, I spotted Henry Fonda all by himself and said, "Hello, Mr. Fonda." His first words were "Call me Hank." I mentioned I had been raised in his home state of Nebraska, and we must have talked for 20 or 30 minutes. He said he hated these types of parties. He was a really nice guy, just like George. Jim Christensen, Santa Maria, Calif...
...hospitality room. Two associates and I decided to crash the party, which was easy. To make a long story short, I spotted Henry Fonda all by himself and said, "Hello, Mr. Fonda." His first words were "Call me Hank." I mentioned I grew up in his home state of Nebraska, and we must have talked for 20 or 30 minutes. He said he hated those types of parties. He was a really nice guy, just like George. Jim Christensen, Santa Maria, California...
...favored to win his fourth term in November. And it is a rural state, so its politicians tend to support guns and farms. It's even got some black-helicopter types in its rugged Northeast Kingdom. But thinking of Vermont as a northeastern version of Idaho or Nebraska because it's got rifles and cows is sort of like thinking of the Village People as tough guys because they had a cop and a construction worker. It's a land of teddy bears, organic cheese, planning charrettes, Buddhist converts and the Vermont Progressive Party, whose members include six state legislators...