Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forced Kearns to figure out how to make Newcomb Central a special place, a school no one would want to shutter. Realizing she was in the middle of "the biggest classroom in the whole world," she decided to give her curriculum an environmental focus, emphasizing Adirondack ecology and history "smack in our backyard." Walk into the school now, and an eerie silence echoes off the polished corridor floors. Classrooms are empty because many of the kids are off in the woods. The kindergarten class is at the town's little nature center down the road. Groups of students...
...bonds, both of which will benefit if rates stabilize or head lower. If you can put off borrowing money, do so. If not, the risk is that rates keep moving up, in which case stocks and bonds are vulnerable and your loan gets even more expensive. Rising rates smack growth stocks the hardest. So one hedge is to shift from stocks that typically trade at 30 to 70 times earnings (many tech stocks) to value stocks trading at far lower multiples. Those include small companies and dividend payers like utilities and real estate investment trusts. Then wait out the fever...
...name of his latest CD, "Brooklyn Basement Blues," may smack of high school amateurism, but Poppa Chubby is truly cosmopolitan. A blues guitarist extraordinaire, Poppa toured Europe earlier this year (and his posters dotted the Paris metro). See him this weekend. Johnny D's, 17 Hancock St., Somerville...
...Himalayan" roller coaster, I suddenly regretted wearing my pea-coat and wool slacks, an appropriate ensemble for my earlier Lit and Arts section, but out of place among the Harley Davidson insignia. My ears absorbed a multitude of noises and frequencies as I scanned the warehouse-sized Emporium: the smack of a baseball in the adjacent batting cage, electronic screams from a blood-and-guts video game, and the monotonous voice of a televised sports commentator. The hubub was mesmerizing and dizzying...
...Himalayan" roller coaster, I suddenly regretted wearing my pea-coat and wool slacks, an appropriate ensemble for my earlier Lit and Arts section, but out of place among the Harley Davidson insignia. My ears absorbed a multitude of noises and frequencies as I scanned the warehouse-sized Emporium: the smack of a baseball in the adjacent batting cage, electronic screams from a blood-and-guts video game, and the monotonous voice of a televised sports commentator. The hubub was mesmerizing and dizzying...