Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even in the diverse global economy of today, the car business is cyclical. At the moment we're in a boom. The trick is to sell before the bust. "The time to buy auto stocks is when times are bad but not getting worse," notes Merrill Lynch analyst John Casesa. "The time to sell is when times are good but not getting better." Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian showed us the way. He was buying Chrysler at $10 in 1991, when the company was on its back. His $1.5 billion investment is worth more than $5 billion...
...green Konica Revio as my favorite, until I noticed that you can't operate the self-timer with any special settings like red-eye reduction, landscape mode or night view. Instead you have to buy a $25 remote control (also available for the Elph and Vectis) to do the trick...
Slobodan Milosevic?s opponents may have him on the ropes, but Serbia?s wily ruler is about to repeat his signature "rope-a-dope" trick ? creating a crisis, and then presenting himself as the only solution. As opposition street rallies demanding his ouster grow bolder, Milosevic launched his counterpunching strategy Thursday in the southern Serbian town of Prokuplje. Milosevic?s Socialist Party scheduled a rally of his supporters there at the same time ? and in the same place ? as an opposition rally. Although only a few dozen Milosevic supporters showed up to confront the 4,000 opposition protestors, the move...
...more tolerant. When you're in a foxhole, you don't care what religion the guy next to you belongs to." Army witches even have a sense of humor. At Halloween, Palmer turns her home, where she keeps a pet wolf named Spirit, into a haunted house for trick-or-treaters. "What could be better," she says, "than a haunted house with real witches and a wolf that howls on command...
...already covered with images of the shiny-faced dictator and her sock-eating companion. Would the microwave disappear next? Would our home explode in an updraft of glossy prints and curly brown negatives? I needed to move my clan to the clean, neatly organized world of digital photos. The trick was to do it cheaply...