Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...swim team one more time, and is headed to her third Olympics. "And last!" she says, laughing. "That's it, finished!" Next year she's going to law school. She's going to get serious about running and try the Los Angeles Marathon just for fun. (A basket of ripe sweat socks to the reader who guesses how close to the women's marathon record of 2:21.06 she will clock on her first try; the guess here is 2:32.) Maybe, she says, she'll try some journalism; communications was her major at the University of Southern California...
...Gardners aren't money managers, but they are investors, and they use the power of online communication to spread their insights. They began investing in stocks at age 18, started an investment newsletter in 1993, and now, at the ripe old ages of 28 (Tom) and 30 (David), direct the Fool's daily operations from a small office in Alexandria, Virginia. The Fool's mission is to take some of the mystery out of the game by offering basic advice outside the Wall Street loop. The real action is on the Motley Fool electronic bulletin boards, where plugged-in investors...
...Sacramento several employees at a Tower Books store 20 blocks from the bus station took one look at a newsmagazine cover last Monday and yelled, "Hey, this is Einstein!" That was their name for a wild-haired, ripe-smelling man who, for a few years until 1994, had shown up regularly in the spring and browsed through science books without buying. But a hotel clerk who told the press that Kaczynski had boarded at his establishment at the same times was less sure of himself when talking to investigators. A federal agent in California was heard to sigh, "I sure...
...popular term Siamese twins originated with a celebrated pair named Eng and Chang, born in Siam (Thailand today) and exhibited across the U.S. from 1829 to 1840. Eng and Chang, who lived to the ripe old age of 63--still a record for conjoined twins--were connected at the chest by a flexible band of cartilage. (Modern surgeons could have separated them easily.) Connections at the chest and abdomen are the most frequent configuration for conjoined twins, though medical texts list more than a dozen possible permutations. Dicephalic twins like the Hensels, who have two heads but share...
...They were both very close games and I think we outplayed them in both," McLaughlin said. "They're a great team to beat, and they're ripe to be beaten...