Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without Gingrich, there would be no balanced budget (or stock market boom) or welfare reform, a measure for which the Clinton White House has since taken credit...
...artifice. TV figures prominently in the complex morality of Pleasantville as well, but the movie is anything but just another case of the media being cynical about the effects of the media (which, by the way, we've had quite enough of). Pleasantville has a message about the stock that we take in our lives and actually makes the novel suggestion that revisiting the TV shows we grew up on might be useful in figuring this...
...want to be a businessperson after graduation, you're not alone. "Despite the recent uncertainties in the stock market, a lot of students out there are still searching for jobs in the corporate world," says Nancy Saunders, business counselor at the Office of Career Services...
Investors usually look no further than their medicine chest or refrigerator for their long-term stock ideas. Sometimes, though, you have to look in your laundry room or garage. The value in today's market lies not in "defensive" names--the Mercks and the Proctor & Gambles, which are priced dearly on recession fears--but rather in stocks and bonds of companies that need a strong economy to push them higher. Wall Street's newfound pessimism could give you a chance to buy these normally "risky" instruments at prices at which the risk is more than amply compensated and nothing lies...
...church he collared an old pal who worked at a Memphis start-up called Federal Express that was trying to figure out how to automate the transportation unit--getting computers to route the couriers, trucks and airplanes. Barksdale's pitch: FedEx could buy Cook's data-processing department lock, stock and mainframe and sell services back to Cook. Within a few years, Barksdale was chief operating officer of FedEx, overseeing a staff...