Word: stocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again call on the Administration to take stock of its approach to the conflict and articulate to the American public a clear vision for bringing about its successful resolution. Until it does, such emotionally volatile blunders as the embassy bombing will continue to exercise a dangerously disproportionate influence over the opinion of the American people and the international community...
...Administration needs to do more than just "take stock" of its strategy. The accidental bombing was more than just pilot error or a bomb gone astray--the embassy was wrongly targeted on the basis of faulty information from...
Some people think wishfully that rapid economic growth will enable the Social Security system to muddle through pretty much as is. Others talk in either-or terms--either funnel most future budget surpluses into Social Security and invest some of that money in the stock market, or increase Social Security taxes and modestly reduce benefits--and the problem will be solved...
Instead, Abraham helps clients decide in what form their debt should take. She helps them distribute their debt between stock issuance, bond purchase and borrowing. In the office, she spends most of her time trading bonds or on the phone with clients...
Obviously, much of the Onion's humor is rather low brow. Its real comic brilliance in Our Dumb Century lies in the way it uses irony to expose the raw, humorous side of human affairs. Headlines such as "Stock Market Invincible" in 1929 and "Archduke Ferdinand Declares 'No Man Can Stop Me"' in 1913 show the follies of complacency and our confidence to predict or control the future. Also, much of the Onion has a very proletarian feel about it, exposing the rulers of society as they dominate the common people, as when Woodrow Wilson promises to "make the world...