Word: waited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hallway to bedroom conference call. Every so often, rumpled lawyers would emerge with wildly divergent claims about the progress of the fractious tobacco talks: a settlement was imminent, negotiators had hit the worst impasse since the start of deliberations on April 3, talks were on the brink of collapse. Wait! There's a settlement! (Well, almost...) Finally, at 3:30 p.m. last Friday, a chorus of state attorneys general gathered around a microphone in the ANA's ballroom to congratulate themselves on what Mississippi's Michael Moore called "the most historic public-health achievement in history...
None of this is likely to prevent the White House from setting up a Contrition War Room, polling every historical grievance to determine mawkish priority. I can't wait to see how Clinton handles Sally Hemings or watch him apologize to the Puritans for Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter...
There's enough of the slacker in me to wait for some E-mailer to present my viewpoint. But my views are not reflective of the greedy self-interest that apparently drives my fellow Xers. Most of the X Generation cannot realistically afford laptops. Certainly those I know who are members of minority groups can't--and I can't. Those Xers who do not see that their PCs separate them from the mainstream even more than television does should turn off their PCs and TVs and look outside. JOHN STEENHOEK Wyoming, Mich...
...that the market has herd instincts. The popular stocks are the ones that go up. But you never know what's popular until after a big move, and popularity can be fleeting. The best way to win is to hunt for good companies that are out of favor. Then wait. If they really are good, the herd will find them, usually after some event calls attention to what the crowd has been missing--like Gates writing a check to Comcast. That's the way Warren Buffett invests. Buffett--one of Gates' buddies, by the way--wouldn't touch most cable...
...prom queen. So maybe more students would look past color lines, Alison says, if adults stopped pointing them out. The Desoto County school board announced last week that it will not do anything until the federal investigation is complete, and that could take months. All Alison can do is wait, in a town that has grown even smaller now, and try to enjoy a summer that shapes up as long, hot and sticky...