Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost the end of the term, and you're not going to take it anymore. After an entire shopping week's worth of market research searching for the best, most interesting, most useful or easiest courses to take, you now realize how wrong everyone was. That so-called "gut" required far more guts than you expected. That purportedly "lucid and inspiring" professor made you wish that you were less than lucid during class. Or maybe the entire experience would have been just dandy, had it not been for the Teaching Fellow from Hell. In short, you were duped. Wronged. Spurned...
...women who still expend the psychic energy that keeps a household going (Is Dave & Buster's right for Ethan's birthday? Christmas here or at my sister's?). As for chores, let's define the term. A chore is the thing that has to be done right now or all hell breaks loose. A chore is putting in an extra load of laundry or cleaning up after the kids before you get rec-room Pompeii. It's not installing an antique doorknob, planting tomatoes or grilling salmon for company, which are fun. Hobbies--surfing the Web, working out, tinkering with...
...paying a big premium for the other. Shareholders still get a (more modest) pop, but in both stocks, not just the target's. So you can do well owning the buying bank--say, a NationsBank, First Union or Chase Manhattan. In many cases, that will be the better long-term investment anyway. But I'd also consider simply plunking some money in a well-run regional bank-stock mutual fund like Fidelity's or John Hancock's. Both are up more than 55% in the past 12 months. There are still some 9,100 banks out there. A fund gives...
...first for the company--and just the sort of Infobahn-tollbooth scenario that Gates spent years swearing he wouldn't pursue. Then there's Windows DNA FS (Distributed Internet Applications for Financial Services, for those keeping score at home), Microsoft's bid for the banking industry's long-term back-office software business, which looks like one of the biggest cash cows high-tech capitalism has yet to offer...
Except that "movie" doesn't seem quite the right term for it. At best, it's a rather murkily photographed one-act play, confined to a single setting and to real time by writer-director James Toback. Indeed, if he had developed his situation--two girls discover that their guy has been blithely having his way with both of them simultaneously--he might have given us a chic, updated version of one of those old-fashioned farces that once upon a time regaled Broadway...