Word: saver
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...recently sat in on a troubled saver's discussions with Schwab investment specialist Terence McNamara in New York City. The client, whom I'll call Mr. Value, has had nearly all his assets in conservative stock funds for three years. In a recent 12-month run, he actually lost money. Tough stuff in a roaring bull market...
Maybe you'd like to try tracking down E.T. yourself? If you have a PC or Mac that sits idle at least a few hours a day, you can join the 1.7 million people who have downloaded SETI@home, a free screen saver (available at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu that uses your computer's downtime to help sort through the reams of noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody...
...necessary to do because of the central needs of compliance and Y2K, but it has not been a time-saver. It has the potential to be a wonderful system, but we aren't there...
...average), thanks in part to a graphics-free interface. The relatively few ads are text only and barely noticeable. Multiple results from a single site are conveniently grouped together. And you can preview the exact sentence containing your search term before clicking on the link--a real time-saver...
Here's a handy time saver for next week: skip just about all the post-Iowa analysis. If history is any guide, almost all of it will be wrong. For instance, if somebody says "the road to the White House leads through Des Moines," ask him if he's using Amelia Earhart's map. Yes, Jimmy Carter used Iowa in 1976 to show he was a serious contender, but that's about it. More often than not, Iowa fades into insignificance by the time New Hampshire votes. Wait a minute, you say. Wouldn't big Iowa victories provide momentum...