Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Street estimate of what a company will earn in a given quarter. The name derives from the air of secrecy surrounding it. No one puts the number in writing; few admit to even speaking it. Yet there are probably whisper numbers for up to 200 stocks each quarter. They tend to be technology stocks and other hot names such as Nike or Starbucks, where robust earnings are critical to supporting the stock price. Intel seems to have a whisper number in most quarters. There's been one for Microsoft, Netscape and Cisco Systems. Strong candidates this quarter are Dell...
Even readers who tend to veer away from poetry find themselves propelled toward the work of Derek Walcott. It's not just because the West Indian Nobel laureate has the classic gift of mixing ease with eloquence and of deepening, dignifying his most private moments with the high and burnished diction of a sunlit Shakespeare. Even more, Walcott has strained and struggled all his life to match sun and rain, to marry the world of autumn leaves and opera houses that he learned to love on paper with the unrecorded "pomme-arac" and fireflies of his long-colonized islands...
...than many might have expected, scoring a 35% drop in overall mortality. There could be many reasons for this, says Grodstein. For one thing, heart attacks and strokes are more likely to be immediately lethal, so preventing them adds up to longer survival. For another, women on hormone therapy tend to be more closely monitored; their cancers are likely to be detected earlier...
...more subjective matter. But because Roswell represents the only time the U.S. military has gone on record saying that flying saucers exist, it has become a cornerstone of belief for the UFO community. They are, by the way, quite a diverse and fractious group of folks--studies say they tend to be better educated than the norm--whose numbers include casual believers; so-called UFOlogists, most of whom are pretty earnest in their efforts to document UFO sightings with something approaching objective rigor; contactees, who believe they have had telepathic communication with aliens; abductees, who believe they have been subjected...
Double albums in hip-hop tend to be as unnecessarily tedious as two-part sitcom episodes and director's-cut home videos. Even the late rap superstars Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. released disappointing double CDs that were heavy on gangsta attitude and light on well-crafted songs. Last week the hard-core rap group Wu-Tang Clan came out with theirs, Wu-Tang Forever (Loud/RCA). Given the fact that the group's last album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) had been lauded in hip-hop circles for its labyrinthine lyrics and creatively jagged production...