Word: spareness
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Just south of Silicon Valley, where he toiled for many years as a computer engineer, Tim May is spending his retirement in the picturesque hills of Corralitos, Calif. But he's not there simply for the view. May believes his spot in this rich agricultural and fishing area might spare him the hardships of a famine ushered in with the new millennium, and he's ordering gold coins and laying in food in bulk just to be sure. He's also buying weapons, adding regularly to his growing gun collection. In the coming months, says May, more and more Americans...
...concedes that the sec's information request was both voluntary and vague, and that big companies have a natural tendency to clam up about business operations and potential liabilities. The majority of firms, says Hock, do seem to be focusing on their most critical systems--a strategy that should spare us from catastrophic consequences. "There will be some extremely annoying, disruptive failures," says Hock. "But it's not going to be the apocalypse...
These days, more people are trading options in their spare time, and for them I have this advice: If you want to compete against me and other pros in short-term trading, quit your day job and really get in the game. Otherwise, focus on researching long-term investments. Track strong businesses that you've researched, and wait for their stocks to be oversold by traders overreacting to some short-term setback. I saw two good examples just last week: Eli Lilly and Xerox. (Full disclosure: I'm long on both stocks.) Here you can beat me and the market...
...them. Like William Ginsburg, Cacheris can also be chummy with reporters; unlike Ginsburg, his comments to them are more wise than wise-ass. When the New York Times reminded Cacheris last week that Ginsburg had even discussed the infant Monica Lewinsky's "polkehs" (her baby-fat thighs), Cacheris retorted, "Spare...
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American original. Prolific, visionary, unorthodox and ingenious, he built for a romantic America, a country with space and grace to spare. While the turbines of Modernism were fitting and turning homes, buildings and cities into parts of a huge functional machine, Wright held on to his belief in an architecture that could dawdle and daydream. His grand plan for cities seemed fantastical and cinematic--the basic building block was not a house but a farm, where each man could grow his own food on an acre block reserved for him since birth...