Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speaks of Timequake not so much as an opus unto itself, but as the final chapter in a body of work that spans three decades and eighteen books, all of them still in print. He notes that, unlike the many writers of his generation, he has lived to a ripe old age. "I got to look back," he crowed at the Brattle, "And I feel lucky as hell." In the course of "looking back" through the lens of Timequake, he covers a lot of familiar ground: his trademark anti-nuclear sentiments are very much in evidence, especially at the beginning...
EUROPE. Many pros believe the Continent is just a few years behind the U.S. in terms of corporate restructurings, cost cutting and providing executives with lucrative stock-option incentives. If they are right, the region is ripe for some strong market surges. Loretta Morris, manager of the Nicholas-Applegate Worldwide Growth Portfolio, is finding dozens of stocks to her liking, especially among export-driven companies benefiting from weakening currencies. Her favorite countries are Germany, the Netherlands and France. Favorite stocks include the French oil company Elf Aquitaine, Dutch electronics-giant Philips and German carmaker Volkswagen...
Yavlinsky replied that although a fair system might evolve in Russia in a few hundred years, the country is ripe for change...
...this adds up to a team that is looking forward to and is ripe for a break-through dominating victory...
...fearful about the security of the newly independent Central and East European nations in the critical struggle for their democratic transformation if they are left in the "wilderness" outside NATO. They are ripe for possible intimidation and exploitation. Realistically, it is too early to bet on Russia's success in creating democratic institutions that will guarantee a break with the Soviet past. There is still too much of a mentality that craves a controlling God-like figure, as opposed to individual freedom and free enterprise, the basis of a democracy. nato is much more than a military alliance that reacts...