Word: popular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wildly popular Governor of Texas, the alpha dog in the G.O.P.'s presidential Iditarod, running 15 points ahead of Al Gore in the polls. It all looks perfect, except for those three small matters you can't do anything about: you look like your father, you sound like your father, and you're just one Herbert shy of sharing the old man's four-part name...
...underappreciated sense of stock-market risk are part of the equation too. And those things will pass. It was only 10 years ago that we stretched reason to justify Japanese stocks' trading at 70 or 100 times earnings--just ahead of that country's enduring recession. Today's most popular stocks trade in that range, and tortured explanations again pass for wisdom...
...sailor, explorer, inventor, best-selling author, prizewinning filmmaker, passionate environmentalist and canny businessman. Instantly recognizable by his pipe, red cap and gaunt silhouette, Jacques-Yves Cousteau--a.k.a. "Captain Planet"--was arguably the century's best known, most popular Frenchman. For generations of scuba divers--and millions of armchair explorers--he created a crystal-clear window for the unseen world beneath the waves...
...think the people will come. Hilles is a faraway place," said a long-time library employee, who asked not to be named "Harvard Square is very popular and that's what draws people into Widener...
...think the people will come. Hilles is a faraway place," said a long-time library employee, who asked not to be named "Harvard Square is very popular and that's what draws people into Widener...