Word: risinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The rising popularity of extreme sports bespeaks an eagerness on the part of millions of Americans to participate in activities closer to the metaphorical edge, where danger, skill and fear combine to give weekend warriors and professional athletes alike a sense of pushing out personal boundaries. According to American Sports...
We parents like to tell ourselves that children "roll with the punches," but we usually say that so we'll feel better--just before we punch them with a huge life change. Kids aren't any more flexible than we are (why should they be?) and lack the perspective to...
In this new era, "three steps and a stumble" has lost its magic too. Yet the theory deserves comment as an alert to the dangers of rising interest rates. Last week the Federal Reserve bumped its target for the benchmark federal-funds rate to 5.25% from 5%. It was the...
What it could do is shift the kinds of stocks and other investments that make the most sense. When interest rates are rising, the last thing you want to own is banks and brokerages, whose cost of money goes up and whose lending and other businesses tend to slow. You...
Although a rising Venezuelan radical may hardly register on the radar of post-Cold War Washington, Hugo Chavez may soon make his presence felt with regular Americans - at the gas pump. Chavez, elected president last November by an overwhelming majority, is moving quickly to consolidate control of his nation?s...