Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ceaseless wonder to me, especially after having spent my junior year abroad in Scotland, that a game can power a culture the way soccer--"football" to the rest of the United Nations--can, and does...
...gallery, where the twelve paintings and prints are presented in sharp contrast to the unforgiving whiteness of the walls. They are now subjected to the cold eye of the observer, who must suppress imagination and base interpretation solely on the abundant text provided. The painting loses its sense of wonder and mystery and becomes a specimen to be looked at and not an entity to be explored and conversed with...
...opening marker, the President has moved significantly on Medicare, after successfully lambasting the Republicans as the enemies of old people in the last election. Clinton is also sounding flexible about Republican demands for a broader cut in the capital-gains tax. Is the Administration negotiating with itself, nervous Democrats wonder? What is it getting in return for the $14 billion it has offered to give up on Medicare? And what is the value of a deal if it leaves the President's party standing for nothing but V chips and school uniforms? A significant value, Raines would argue...
...want a hot investment tip? Better make that TIPS, the acronym for a new class of U.S. government bond that went on sale last week--and quickly turned into the Treasury Department's version of Tickle-Me Elmo. The new wonder bonds, known as Treasury Inflation Protection Securities, were snapped up by institutional investors such as insurance companies and pension funds, which lugged $37 billion to the table, even though only $7 billion worth of the 10-year notes were actually up for sale...
TIPS definitely make sense for the government. The new issues could eventually lower the Treasury's cost of borrowing by billions. No wonder plans call for a second auction in April that might offer TIPS in a variety of maturities so you can ward off inflation for as many years as you like...