Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...textbook is enormous," says Josh Edelman '00, a student in the class. "I don't think anyone could possibly read all that, but it's a very nice reference...
...bubblegum bubbles, do her homework, watch TV and cook your dinner. She was the babysitter. She was the ultimate teenager. She was the first full-time devotee of MTV. The babysitter encapsulated everything every pre-adolescent girl aspired to be. She studied big-kid subjects like foreign languages and textbook math. She was allowed to wear make-up--glossy pink lip gloss, mascara and blue eyeshadow that reached her eyebrows. Somehow her mother allowed her to have stretch jeans and stilletto heels worn with scrunch socks. She even had a boyfriend who'd pick her up when she was done...
...SPEED Teens + cars = danger. One reason: a recent study shows that 30 states use drivers' manuals more difficult to read than the average high school textbook. The states with the toughest manuals: Alabama, Ohio, West Virginia, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah and Washington...
What happens now? As every trader knows, we have to retest the ugliness of last Monday before we have the cathartic capitulation. In fact the rest of the week unfolded in textbook irony, almost exactly like '87's postcrash aftermath. Which means we are probably a few more days away from a bottom. How will you know? Easy: business will be back on the business pages where it belongs, and talk of a year-end rally will fill the air. And the only people still at the corner of Broad and Wall at 6 a.m. will be selling coffee...
Lewis and Clark--the names rise dimly from an elementary school textbook along with an illustration of two white men in a canoe. Explorers. The Northwest Passage. Something to do with Vasco da Gama...