Word: sore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company grew and grew and grew. It grew so fast that it surprised him how little he knew. "No plan survives its first encounter with reality," he says. One night, while Bezos was on his knees complaining about how sore he was from packing, he said to a co-worker, "You know what we need? Kneepads!" The employee looked at him like he was an idiot. "What we need," the co-worker said evenly, "is packing tables...
...fated alliance he made last fall with Jeffrey Sachs, a principal of the Chase Capital Entertainment Partners investment fund. Cassandra-Chase looked perfect on paper: Chase brought the structure to do private equity investment, and Giacchetto brought his high-wattage clients. But friction developed fast. Among the sore points, Cassandra-Chase's investment in Digital Entertainment Network, an Internet start-up whose chairman resigned after the out-of-court settlement of a suit that alleged he had molested a 13-year...
...occasion of this, FM s final issue of the millennium, we say goodbye and good riddance. Our asses are sore...
...album concludes with a performance of "I'll Be There for You" by rapper thor-el, by far the most out-of-place track on the album. All in all, a bad combination--songs that mostly sound alike and a few oddballs that stick out like a pair of sore thumbs...
...brass at Fidelity will cry foul, as may the entire mutual-fund industry, which is in sore need of a new superstar. But here goes, anyway: Give it up, Peter Lynch. This stuff about never having worked on a computer and wanting little to do with technology stocks is stale. Very stale. You've got good company in Warren Buffett, another totemic technophobe. And I'm not saying to load up exclusively on tech stocks. But it's plain silly to encourage plain folks to avoid them. They're not that difficult to understand. If you can figure out Maytag...