Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interesting experience once when I pulled up along side a blacked-out Camaro whose sole occupant wore wrap-around sunglasses, a pink bandanna and all the indications of steroid use. I inched up a little to the light, and when it turned he thrust his V8 engine into action. Of course, he had to brake heavily to stop before the next light, but I arrived, unavoidably, slightly later than he did. Knowing that my horsepower was inferior, I decided that brains would...
NEVER LET IT BE SAID THAT MICKEY KANTOR LACKS OPTImism. After two days of talks in Washington last week to wrap up loose ends of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Kantor emerged with his fellow trade representatives from Mexico and Canada and claimed that progress had been satisfactory. He predicted that side accords to safeguard the environment and workers' rights, both critical to the treaty's approval in the U.S. Senate, would be concluded soon...
...success. Start with Jurassic Park's fondness for huge, dangerous, pet-worthy creatures and its cunning use of special effects to make the fauna realistic. Add a dollop of Hollywood eco-mania, portraying the park owner as a predatory capitalist who would kill Willy for the insurance money. And wrap this around the summer's favorite icon: the fatherless boy who teaches everyone else -- surrogate parents, adult friends and a nearby cetacean -- how to be human. The movie hits every emotional button with a firm fist. It makes the phrase feel-good sound like a command from the industry...
...know what his future plans are," Thompson said. "He is resigning, but he has not given us an effective date--he said he wants to wrap up his cases...
...FUNDS. The problem with throwing money into stock-market mutual funds -- everybody's doing it -- is just that: everybody's doing it. Maybe buying into the market at an all-time high will become the new way to get rich. But something tells me that even without the 3% wrap fee, people who've never invested in the market before shouldn't start now, at least not in any big way. But if you do start now, remember two things: 1) you can get professional management and diversification through mutual funds; 2) buy no-load funds, the ones that charge...