Word: transients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that smacks of opportunity. If we step away from the transient worry about whether the Fed will cut rates further when it meets this week, we can see that bank stocks are selling for substantially less than almost any other sector of the market. Tech, drugs and even oil shares trade at a much higher valuation, relative to expected earnings. Why? Because many bank loans have gone bad in Asia, Russia and Latin America, not to mention the Long Term Capital hedge fund...
...high school and it killed me to be home every weekend watching M.A.S.H. But after all my surgeries I became the hottest thing since sliced bread. I never was home during the weekend after that and I've managed to have multiple, superficial and transient relationships. Don't worry what anyone thinks, do what you gotta do to get the lovin' that you deserve...
Nicholi quoted Lewis to give the Christian perspective on this issue, which is a part of a stated goal of the lecture series. The quote displays Lewis's reason for the transient quality of happiness: "The Creator refreshes the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not allow us to mistake them...
Whatever else the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal may ultimately be viewed as--grounds for impeachment, epic tabloid sideshow or the latest outbreak of puritan hysteria in the culture that gave us The Scarlet Letter--it already provides a cautionary tale about the dangers of instant intimacy. In the socially transient, lonely world of Washington, where betrayal is only a subpoena away, even between the closest confidants, and a flurry of quickies in a private bathroom can turn a couple, in Monica's words, into "sexual soul mates," fast friendship may be the ultimate danger...
...narrator grows older and more pieces of the familial puzzle fall into place, the novel starts to slowly simmer. The vignettes, always sharp and memorable even when their point is nor readily apparent, become increasingly lucid as the mystery unravels. Cavalcades of transient images fill three or four pages at a time and then vanish, but their aftereffects are less ephemeral. The constant aggregation of detail that comes with passing years explains exactly the boy's gradual understanding of his tortured familial history...