Word: rumores
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...Robert Ourlian, an ex-Detroit News reporter, said that rumor in the union camp is that it is only a matter of time before Giles withdraws his name from consideration...
...website run by 24-year-old New Yorker Philip Kaplan (found at the X-rated address F_____dCompany.com) Launched on Memorial Day, it has already received more than 80,000 sign-ups. Kaplan's secret: besides running sweepstakes on the big losers, his site has quickly become the central rumor mill of the Internet economy. Human-resources departments scour it for tips on where to send the headhunters next, and analysts check it before recommending a company to investors...
...their own part, Wall Street investors finally decided Wednesday morning they knew what was coming, and put together a nice little "buy on the rumor, sell on the news" rally that stood ready to unravel just as neatly in the wake of Greenspan's call. The Fed's comments are aimed at defusing a rally-cum-wealth effect that could spark consumption and undo all of Big Al's good work. But there'll be more than enough relief left over to spark a nice upturn in the days and weeks ahead...
...history is a pastiche of fact, rumor and not a little romance. He was born, it is believed, in Siberia, while his father was being trained as a technocrat under Stalin. But his official biography transposes his birth to the slopes of Mount Paektu on the North Korean-Chinese border--for many, the mythical birthplace of the ancestor of the Korean people. Kim's mother died when he was a schoolboy. When the Korean War broke out during his father's rule, he was spirited off to the safety of Manchuria. In the 1960s Kim is believed to have trained...
...College: Rumor has it you're casting around for a university, and that you're especially interested in art history courses. Good for you: As I've always said, if you're going to invest four years of your life getting a liberal arts education, you might as well go the distance and choose the absolute least useful course of study. Now, about choosing a college. Apparently you've expressed some interest in a couple of schools in Scotland, the Oxbridge schools and the University of East Anglia. I'm going to urge you to toward East Anglia - not only...