Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nature of investing in sports teams is that most folks don't really care if they make money at it. They're in it for the thrill. But the Indians illustrate a problem with all IPOs: they are timed for sale, not purchase. They come to market when everything is clicking, when the main risks are that the good times, which you are paying for, won't last. Companies, after all, can peak just like sports teams...
...even the mistiest of such geezers is likely to be right about the rock and soul music of that decade: Who could overstate its distinctive exuberance, its heady inventiveness, or the thrill of its sheer abundance? And who could overcelebrate those most emblematic of '60s pop phenomena, the Beatles? For the Beatles were then, and remain to this day, the world's most astonishing rock-'n'-roll band...
That one said something to the effect that "if you are a diabetic who craves sweet things, take along some extra insulin, and you will not fail to thrill to The Sound of Music...
...nothing else, I had learned my first lesson in creative theater advertising, for "You will not fail to thrill to The Sound of Music" was the main quote outside London's Palace Theatre for many years to come. When the sign finally came down, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's last collaboration had become the longest-running American musical in London theater history...
Harvard would never enjoy the thrill of a winagain, as the demoralizing defeat by Dartmouth wasfollowed by two losses and a tie. The one brightspot came in the 2-2 tie against Brown...