Word: wee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wouldn't you know it, Greenspan was doing nothing of the sort. He was actually creating a month-long, super-duper buying opportunity. After all that hand-wringing, accompanied by a rocky sell-off of so many stock favorites, we get a wee little quarter-point hike and a flat statement saying the Fed is no longer biased toward tightening. Greenspan gave you a total green light to get long stocks...
...research, conducted by Japanese and Scottish scientists, may be a wee bit flimsy, as it is based almost entirely on how 104 Japanese and British women responded to some digitally altered photos. But it's reasonably intuitive and might explain such phenomena as the brevity of the Carmen Electra-Dennis Rodman marriage. It also jibes with what evolutionary psychologists have been saying for some time. When it comes to settling down, women know that the alpha male may not be the best bet for the "parental investment" required to raise a human child. But when the biological bells are clanging...
...driven CEO, the mixing of work and play creates a beautiful sight: workers in front of their terminals into the wee hours. "I don't think there is leisure time anymore. New-media workers don't take time off and decompress; their idea of time off is playing Quake on the LAN [local area network]," says Steve Baldwin, co-author of the forthcoming book Netslaves...
Whether the museum will flourish is more up in the air than Beuys' sculpture. Mass MoCA has to survive on a wee budget and attract more than seasonal tourists to the area. All this without a titanium-covered building or a huge permanent collection to marvel at. But the combination of this sprawling, roughhewn relic of an era of America's past bristling with the newest in every type of art form is something almost equally worth seeing...
Whether you choose to celebrate by packing, Grilling into the wee hours of the dawn, or running as fast as you can away from this scary, scary land, the whole school will join together in a collective sigh of relief. End of exams glee will be shared by the entire community, including and especially the dining hall workers, the custodians and the exam proctors...