Word: pyramidally
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CONFLICTING CLAIMS Chinese scholars say the glistening white pyramid perched on a bluff overlooking the Yalu River is the tomb of Koguryo's 5th century King Changsu. Some of their Korean counterparts disagree, believing their national hero to be buried in Koguryo's second capital, Pyongyang...
...value as the cause of a stock's rise. The stock market's heady ascent over the past five years was driven often by faith in the performance of equities on Wall Street rather than by faith in the potential of the companies to earn money on Main Street. Pyramid schemes are based on a not dissimilar psychology - the consensual hallucination that everyone will win as long as everyone keeps buying in. And pyramid schemes always end in tears. Value is ultimately finite and tangible; there'd be no poverty if it could simply be willed into existence...
...Girshkin isn't so much an expatriate but a repatriate--born in Leningrad and raised in New York City. Girshkin does a favor for a New York-based Russian mafioso, who pays him back by sending him to the East European city of Prava--read Prague--to run a pyramid scheme aimed at slumming young expats, the "pretty castoffs of well-to-do America, cruising along on their five-year plan of alcoholic self-discovery." They're easy marks, and easy targets for satire too. In less skillful hands, The Russian Debutante's Handbook could have turned into a fish...
...same way that yesterday's nasties are turned into today's partners-in-peace by the outcome of wars, MikeTyson underwent a metamorphosis at The Pyramid in Memphis Saturday night. The onetime king of pugilistic beasts became a pussycat...
...fracas-cum-pre-fight press conference last January when an enraged Tyson suddenly threw down his hat and, during the ensuing melee, bit Lewis in the thigh. After that, everyone agreed the two men should be kept apart until they crawl into the padded ring at The Pyramid, the 10-year-old downtown arena normally reserved for the city's new professional basketball team...