Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since I was eight or so, I have had a special niche in my world-classification for college students. Distinct from full-fledged adults (tax-paying car-washers in Southern California), yet certainly not of the same species of the younger student (the grade school variety who reach water-fountains and recognize pop songs with ease), college students were strident independents, free spirits mastering maturity, dabbling along...
...Frey stepped forward to accept the award, she was surprised with a special treat. Alerted of the honor a week in advance, her parents traveled from Acton to be at the event...
...jumped up, ran his hands over my upper body and estimated my body-fat percentage. Here my notes say just that "he touched me in funny places." I don't know if I was trying to be a thorough reporter or just really well instructed from that ABC Afterschool Special...
...name of a firm doesn't mean that firm is managing your money. In fact, a growing number of investors, whether they realize it or not, are pouring cash into subadvised funds. These funds are farmed out by the likes of Vanguard and Dreyfus to outside managers with special expertise. That's a good thing, according to a recent study, which showed that subadvised funds, especially in growth, health and emerging-market stocks, initially outperform, by up to 0.5% annually, their in-house peers. Two such choices are Enterprise Growth and Dreyfus Appreciation...
...SPENDER Congress never met a bill it couldn't stuff with special spending programs. The emergency appropriations bill for NATO's attack on Yugoslavia is particularly porky. Some of the "emergencies" that seem the least urgent...