Word: pent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, cash has been piling up in money-market funds--$37 billion in October, the most since the Asian contagion--and flows into stock funds have been tepid. Y2K worrywarts, it seems, are hoarding more than bottled water and canned food. How should you invest? If Cleland is right, pent-up demand will lift everything, and popular tech stocks will get more popular. The traditional approach is through beaten-up small stocks, which may be coming into favor anyway. Salomon Smith Barney likes beaten-up big stocks, including Fluor, H&R Block and Hasbro. You've got choices. The first...
...freshman year, and even now, with short brown hair, smooth face and dimples, he looks more like a freshman than a senior. "Joey's such a sweet kid," says his mother Debbie Deimeke, who divorced Joe's father when Joe was six, "but inside he's got all this pent-up anger...
Grad students honored their professors with the "pent-up gratitude" of several years, according to Fagen...
...novelist currently writing in English does so with more energy, intelligence and allusiveness than Rushdie. Nearly every page of The Ground Beneath Her Feet offers something to arrest a devoted reader's attention: puns and wordplays galore ("Ma, keep mum"; "Where was a penthouse pent?") and enough literary echoes--of Joyce; Yeats; Frost; Dante; oh hell, of nearly everybody--to keep graduate students on the prowl through these pages for years. But for all of Rushdie's brilliance, the parts of this novel seem greater than the sum of its whole...
...Their goalie, Felix Potvin, helped me put on four boxes' worth of equipment, which weighed 30 lbs. He then had Warren Luhning, a rookie forward, take shots on me. What I didn't realize was that Luhning had not yet scored an NHL goal and had a lot of pent-up aggression. This became obvious when he skated around the net with his arms in the air after scoring an 80-m.p.h. slap shot on me. Potvin thought that was overdoing...