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...stick figure," she said. "I'm not thin, but I do consider myself in fairly good shape...
...stick figure," she said. "I'm not thin, but I do consider myself in fairly good shape...
...Mostly it was just about getting in better physical shape--working out every day," she said...
Bush and his people talk about currents too powerful for any one politician, however canny, to shape. "A lot of this you just can't control," Bush told TIME. "Like generational change. Like incumbency. Like the tides of history." The tides of history, in 1998, could not have been more helpful if he had aligned the moons and planets himself. A popular Democratic Administration was drowning in scandal. The Republican Party in Washington was obsessed, adrift and seemingly intent on proving to voters that it had no clue about what was actually on their minds. And all the while Bush...
...idea comes along. Investors throw money at it. Eventually, an economic model emerges. At that point, the winners win big, and everyone else goes broke. The Street's role is to make sure that enough money gets thrown at the idea so that the profitable model takes shape quickly. This weeding-out process is time-tested, from the advent of trains, planes and automobiles early in the century to the more recent arrival of electronics, computers and biotechnology. Consumers almost always benefit; the average investor almost always is better off waiting to see which companies survive...