Word: plainview
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clark is the perfect Silicon Valley Man, though he was born "somewhere below the poverty line" in Plainview, Texas. His father abandoned the family when he was a child, and his mother should have been on welfare, but it "never occurred to her," Lewis writes. Clark, a classic malcontent, enlisted in the Navy after high school, was misevaluated and put in a class for especially slow delinquents, shipped out to sea, came back and was retested, this time scoring so well in math that it baffled his instructors...
...herbal preparations lull you into ignoring serious problems. "A lot of my patients with hepatitis C take milk thistle," says Dr. Melissa Palmer, a liver specialist in Plainview, N.Y. "It seems to normalize their liver-function tests, but it doesn't affect the underlying disease...
...everyone disparages mergers. Community banks have become a sanctuary for small businesses and customers who can't afford the big banks. David Williams, chairman of Hale County State Bank in Plainview, Texas, has seen his deposits increase and his loan applications rise 30% in the past 18 months as two area banks were gobbled up. Lesson: you can move your account. But beware, your bank will probably charge you for that...