Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was no let-down. I was as cheerful and self-satisfied as George Steinbrenner at his ticker-tape parade, chirping to anyone who would listen that it was my twenty-first. But I was wrong in believing that the day of my birthday wasn't the important part. I had falsely prophesied the source of a birthday's specialness. That specialness is born of the specificity of time, from an understanding that time is not like water, fluid throughout and a means of carrying me with its current from here to there. Time can be a destination...
...season to hit a barrage of grand slams, seemed like the Natural. But this team kept even Strawberry and Wells politely restrained. They got the ridiculously self-monikered Rock Raines to go back to Tim Raines. None of them wanted to take the microphone during the ticker-tape parade, not even Wells...
...middle of the play-offs. So everybody stitched his number on their hats, even ex-teammate Jim Leyritz, who played on the opposing Padres. Hernandez pitched his first American season after paddling on a boat to escape from Cuba. His family was permitted to leave Havana for a ticker-tape parade in New York City. Even Fidel Castro is a softy for this team...
...think you had a tough week last week--and who didn't, with the Dow off 482 points?--you might perk up after a chat with Stanley Druckenmiller. A six-footer with deep-set eyes and a grin that creeps sideways across his face like a stock ticker, he has been labeled the world's brightest currency trader, an Einstein of the pits. Druckenmiller's paycheck is signed by George Soros, for whom he oversees $22 billion. Uh, make that a little less. Last week Druckenmiller watched helplessly as the Russian debt market vaporized into fiscal neutrinos, taking the last...
...biggest bug in the blue-pill program is its effect on the old ticker. Viagra was already known to clash badly with heart disease drugs such as nitroglycerin; now the researchers have anecdotal evidence to suggest that any cardiovascular complaint might put you in the danger zone. Pfizer's response? You're 2.5 times more likely to have heart trouble in the hours after sex anyway -- with or without the little blue pill. And since that hasn't stopped men so far, these latest warnings are hardly likely to deflate Viagra's sales figures: 3.6 million and rising...