Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says. So don't buy now; it might even make sense to sell (I'm not) if your shares haven't gone up much. Other guideposts to a potential big hit: a new fund manager and excessive trading (a turnover rate above 100%). If you can help it, no point getting stuck with the evidence...
...dangers in Hata's war and peace, the physical threats are easier to handle than the emotional perils. On this point, Doc Hata would agree with the granddaddy of quietly affecting writers, Doc Chekhov, who said that any idiot can handle a crisis; it's day-to-day living that wears...
...fascinating story, though somewhat disgusting, all around, from a moral point of view, being mostly about money and therefore--considering all the ambient death and suffering--weirdly beside the point. It is a little difficult, despite Orey's exertions on behalf of the antitobacco lawyers, to find heroes in the drama. Riches are redistributed from one class of the venal to another. Mississippi's Medicaid legal team is awarded fees of $1.43 billion. Dick Scruggs, a leader of the team, buys himself a bigger private plane and a $200,000 Bentley; he trades in his 61-ft. motor yacht...
...ADVENTURE, Sept. 6]. But such enthusiasm is an assault on the legions of young Americans striving to build a family and career based on something deeper and more enduring than a dopamine surge of pleasure. The risk takers represent a fringe of our society, and while interesting to a point, they are hardly the leaders of a movement. SEAN P. MAZER New York City...
...somewhat unsettling to see that thrill seeking to the point of looking death in the eye is replacing more valuable pursuits--responsibility for others, respect, tolerance and religion. WERNER RADTKE Paderborn, Germany...