Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After all, they reason, why keep a "broked" baby when they can get a new one that works better? Despite his misgivings, Tommy must go along for the ride to care for his younger brother as Chuckie and the twins take Dil back to the hospital in the Reptar Wagon, a crazy contraption built by Stu in his toy workshop...
...bucolic scene straight out of classic Disney: birdies flutter, bunnies nuzzle, a Bambi-esque deer gracefully grazes. And then--VROOOM!--the idyll is disrupted as a Reptar wagon rumbles through with some screaming toddlers aboard. Danger: Rugrats at work...
...somebody's daddy too," Gates says as he gets into a blue Mercedes station wagon parked outside the Barker Center. Before arriving at work, he sometimes drives his daughter to school...
...story she has to tell, this is a story that revolves around transportation none the less. Lindberg intersperses lively descriptions of her father's 6'2" frame folding itself into a Volkswagon Beetle for a quick road-side nap with tales of sleek Pullman trains and Ford Ranch Wagons. Lindbergh writes that her father "may have chosen it [the Ford] more in an attempt to camouflage and conceal his family from the world, a vehicle that mixed family travel with protection, part covered wagon and part battleship." In many ways Lindbergh's new memoir is an attempt to understand...
Meanwhile, index funds--the bane of active managers--continue to dazzle. Their weak spot was supposed to be a down market. But when the market tumbled in August, the index funds held up better than most. Which tells you that if you can hitch your wagon to a star, big-bet funds are worth it. Failing that, though, better just to stick your money in an index fund and let it ride...