Word: whim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what should you do with your money? While Fidelity still has plenty of chart toppers and more mutual-fund dollars than any of its competitors, there are today hundreds of other companies running 6,085 funds tailored to every investing whim imaginable. This staggering number of funds--which continues to grow almost daily--is both a blessing and a curse. Let no one ever say he can't find a fund that matches his investing goals. But on the other hand, how in the world do you ever decide which fund...
Harvard's fortunes are subject to the whim of the corn crop, which has been decimated by high wind and hail in the last two years. "There's many a farmer that has to stand out there every night and literally guard their field--pray for the hail not to come," says Brent Williamson, principal for the 4th through 12th grades at the Harvard Public Schools...
Harvard's fortunes are subject to the whim of the corn crop, which has been decimated by high wind and hail in the last two years. "There's many a farmer that has to stand out there every night and literally guard their field--pary for the hail not to come," says Brent Williamson, principal for the 4th through 12th grades at the Harvard Public Schools...
...real losses in being paralyzed," he says, "is the absence of spontaneity. You can't do things like go for a cup of coffee on a whim. Whenever I leave the house, it's a huge operation. I have the nurses. The van has to be equipped with an oxygen tank, emergency meds and an Ambu bag, which is like a balloon used to pump air into someone manually. We had an episode when I was coming back from New York one time in the winter, and the vent failed just as we were coming up the driveway...
...Once you leave it up to the whim of one individual, then it's a slippery slope," he said...