Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Comic Strip paid $7 a set during the week, $40 on weekends--but he was trying to get his name out there, trying to build a rep. His big joke was this: "Woman comes up to me, says she'll do anything for me, anything. So I say, 'Bitch, paint my house...
...used to always tell me he needed another joke like 'Bitch, paint my house!,'" says Mario Joyner, a comic and friend of Rock's. "He thought that was a big bit for him." Rock, frustrated that crowds wouldn't laugh, once poured a drink on a man's head. Clubs refused to give him much stage time, agitating him further...
...time--far more than less-educated women, whose accuracy rate was 43%. More puzzling: the most accurate predictors were women who relied on dreams or gut feelings, not physical signals. Still, says Johns Hopkins study co-author Janet DiPietro, none of the above dare "run out and paint the nursery pink or blue...
...record that the non-stock-optioned young people I know seem to be showing no signs of suffering mightily from the new disease that I've been reading about--"millionaire angst," a condition that can apparently disable an otherwise healthy and prosperous 28-year-old who, while stripping paint from what ought to be a perfectly adequate starter house, can't keep himself from dwelling on the fact that a contemporary of his in Silicon Valley is starting with a house that costs $9 million...
...sometimes numbers alone can paint a pretty clear picture. Take Chemdex.com a vertical e-market based in Palo Alto, Calif., developed for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry in 1997. Chemdex is reducing sales and distribution costs industrywide by 20%--more than $4 billion of the total $20 billion global life-sciences research-products market, according to Volpe Brown analyst Finnie. "In effect," he says, "Chemdex is turning around to the chemical producers, and it is saying, 'Congratulations! This is your lucky day. You just won the lottery. Here's a check for $4 billion.' These guys have not seen their...