Word: shared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometimes thought my fellow students at college were like courses or library books, placed here for me as experiences waiting to be experienced, instead of what they really were--people who are important to each other because of the things they share, not because of the things that make them different and diverse and new and exciting. Like most first-years, I didn't always remember to take my time, or to do things because they moved my heart instead of because they were here and they were new. Luckily, I made it through my first year without any emotional...
...There seemed to be a feeling of, `You don'tseem to share or be aware of what makes this aunique possibility,"' Dingman adds...
...because, during the last stages of the run-up in the Dow and the S&P 500, most of the increase was accounted for by such large companies as Coca-Cola and Microsoft; many smaller stocks were left behind. In the S&P 500, virtually all the gains in share prices in recent months were made by the 50 largest. At the same time, the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks--traditionally favored by many individual investors--was off 29% from its April high. And as of Monday, the average stock on the New York Stock Exchange...
...recession comes, economists say, the cause will be the inability of countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Venezuela to buy as many U.S. exports with their devalued currencies--and the hit on U.S. wages and corporate earnings as cheap imports from those countries grab a greater share of the U.S. consumer's wallet...
...average students like Brian Wennerstrum--a group researchers call "woodwork children" because of their tendency to fade into the classroom background--are suffering from an unofficial policy of neglect as public schools overlook students in the middle in favor of the bright stars or the learning disabled. The share of public-school budgets devoted to "regular education"--which almost two-thirds of students receive--plummeted from 80% in 1967 to less than 59% in 1996, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The trend has accelerated in the past decade. From 1991 to 1996, regular ed accounted for just...