Word: red-hot
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...Wesley Junior College and plans to go into art dealing. Afternoons, Wyeth teaches the family trade to his other son, Jamie, 17. So fast has Jamie learned painting that the proceeds from his work sit in front of the staid Wyeth house like a visitor from Mars-a red-hot Corvette Sting Ray. Says Wyeth, "Some day I'll be known as James Wyeth's father...
...Virginia has become a make-or-break state for McCain, and Prince William County is its red-hot center. The site of the first and second battles of Bull Run more than 140 years ago, it now marks a new Mason-Dixon Line on the electoral map: a midpoint between the largely blue-leaning industrialized North that stretches up to Maine and the agrarian, conservative South. The western part of Prince William is old Virginia, rural horse country dotted with estates and polo fields. This end of the county helps make it the ninth richest...
...thinks a little-known fact about President George W. Bush '68's past - that his first mention in The New York Times occurred in 1967 when, as former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity's practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger - deserves more national attention ... On Sunday, Trudeau's cartoon "Doonesbury" featured fictional character Mark Slackmeyer explaining the President's position against current anti-torture legislation by revisiting a series of 1967 Yale Daily News articles that exposed DKE's rush activities, which at the time included brandings...
...half to the many thousands who have regularly quit the country in search of work right up to the end of the 1980s, Ireland's best and brightest have a long history of leaving in search of opportunity and sunnier climates. But a decade and a half of red-hot growth all but wiped out large-scale emigration, and Ireland has instead found itself a destination for immigrants from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe...
...month period, and then electronically buy and sell "synthetic ownership interests," a convoluted name for fake shares, of current baseball, basketball, football, and hockey players. Like any self-respecting stock site, the home page details the day's biggest winners and losers, as well as which traders are red-hot. You can easily access data on each athlete: performance charts, shares outstanding (which start anywhere from 50-250 depending on demand, and can change when the stock splits, which happens if it hits $20), market cap, and watch your portfolio fluctuate as if it were on Fidelity or E-trade...