Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boyfriend has returned to Harvard and will be taking an assistant professorship in the Government Department, replete with an office just downstairs from her own. Nikki had always imagined that her next encounter with the dashing Dante Rosario would find her stepping out of a limo on Wall Street in some chic Anne Klein suit. Instead, she's wearing a two-year old dress from Urban Outfitters and carrying her lunch in a plastic sack. Everything Nikki does to try and show Dante the success she's made of her life seems to pale in comparison with his accomplishments, making...
...used to it. "I'd be very suspicious," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "This was a relief rally -- an excuse to bargain-hunt on the good yen news." Psychology, even on hair-triggered Wall Street, can only take the Dow or NASDAQ so far north. "There's a long history of central banks proving themselves unable to force a currency to stay up or down," says Kadlec. "The economic fundamentals always...
...company, sold its first shares to the public in 1995 while its movie Toy Story was a runaway box-office hit. Or that hockey's Florida Panthers made the move a year later, fresh from their first appearance in the Stanley Cup finals. Nor is it a fluke that Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs, with the market at a historic high, is now mulling an initial public offering of its own. In the business of making your money mine, which is what any IPO is about, timing is everything...
Every manner of political argument is ruled legitimate in our democratic discourse. But invoke the Bible as grounding for your politics, and the First Amendment police will charge you with breaching the sacred wall separating church and state. Carter notes, for example, that one is allowed to have any view on abortion so long as it derives from ethical or practical or sociological or medical considerations. But should someone stand up and oppose abortion for reasons of faith, he is accused of trying to impose his religious beliefs on others. Call on Timothy Leary or Chairman Mao, fine. Call...
...drive your car too far into the garage--say, into the bikes or the washing machine--or not far enough to clear the door, there's help in sight. Park Zone from Exeter Technologies in New York City is a $100 ultrasonic motion sensor that mounts on the garage wall. It uses green, yellow and red lights to guide drivers as surely and smoothly as if they were docking a passenger...