Word: splendor
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...suggesting anything dramatic. Patient, long-term ownership of stocks remains a key to financial security. But stock prices are a lot higher than when you started investing, whether that was last decade or last year. The good times may persist until the last baby boomer retires in splendor in 2029. But the market has a history of taking back a good chunk of what it gave--and when you least expect it. Investors got a reminder of that last Tuesday, when the Dow plunged 151 points, part of a four-day drop. It fell an additional 176 points by midday...
Passing Quincy, Prescott and Felton Streets while walking eastbound, much of the old Cambridge splendor surfaces. Victorian houses protrude to the edge of the street, and torrents of tree pollen and flowers cascade from the Dogwood trees...
Continue north to Canyon de Chelly (pronounced Shay) National Monument, which offers all the Grand Canyon's splendor minus the traffic, crowds and noise. Inhabited by Indians for about 2,000 years, the canyon has two scenic rim drives with breathtaking views of the multihued canyon and ancient cliff dwellings. All visitors must be accompanied by a Navajo guide for walks, horseback rides and driving tours. The only public access into the canyon without a guide is at the White House Ruins Trail. Lodging options in the area include the Thunderbird Lodge, built around an 1896 trading post, a Holiday...
...which Jerry derives his daily spectacle. One, angry black Americans confront the Ku Klux Klan. Two, partners confess that they are less than faithful. And finally, my personal favorite, husbands attempt to convince their stripper wives to hang up their G-strings. Allow me to elaborate on the full splendor of these seemingly simple templates that form the groundwork of Jerry's genius...
...case, people will ask, what is it that Pope John Paul II uniquely brings to the millennium? Almost all who have experienced him at close quarters understand the special luminosity he radiates when surrounded live by a million people. But the great historical backdrop of his splendor fades. He was the student and manual laborer from Wadowice in Poland who became the first non-Italian Pope in 450 years. His was the dominant spiritual presence in the final round of the great revolutionary challenge that began soon after the turn of the century and sought no less than to alter...