Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Focusing on 'what students want' would tend to focus on short-term goals, and we constantly have to think about the long--indeed the very long--term goals," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "The only reason Harvard has been around for 360 years is that each generation has thought about the needs of future generations, not just about...
...born eight years ago, he was working as a contract negotiator for a shipping company and thought business was his calling. But he found himself taking more time off and, over his employer's objections, bringing his little girl to work on occasion. Then in 1992 he wrote a short essay for Newsweek that set the course of his new career. Lamenting the absence of positive father figures in children's literature, the piece drew enormous response from readers...
...short, 30-year Treasury-bond yields spiked as high as 5.69% last Thursday, from 5.08% at the end of January, because some bond traders think--yet again--they just might see a possible uptick in inflation at some point in the undefinable future. Might happen. Might not. I view this skittishness as merely the latest pendulum swing in Wall Street's obsession with inflation. It will swing the other way soon enough. In fact, the T-bond yield fell to 5.59% Friday. Still, we have to live with bond traders' anxieties, and for now that means higher mortgage and other...
Topica hopes to make money mainly through targeted ads. Anyone searching for a list about basenjis, say, might see a dog-food ad. At some point, list "owners" may be given the option of allowing short, targeted text ads to be appended to messages sent to subscribers--in exchange for a percentage of the ad revenue. That sounds tasty...
...short, medical considerations shouldn't be the parents' primary concern when deciding whether or not to circumcise their son. Health benefits do exist, but they aren't great enough to override any personal preferences...