Word: year-end
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...mistake a year-end reversal of fortune—which is what that would be—for the continuation of the two-horse race we saw last season. That’s over now. A sort of mob rule on ice has taken its place...
...highlight of each ?CBS SM? year-end show (along with a show-and-tell of endangered species saved) is its annual Obit review, which last December ran for nearly 20 mins. The segments were sensitively presented and expertly edited, the narration flowing with grace and pertinence from one subject to the next, the clips and photos evoking in a few seconds lives whose brilliance or notoriety helped change ours. My wife says she expects to cry at least once during each ?CBS SM.? This farewell montage had us both moist with sorrow and appreciation...
...great champion - or a single great rivalry - we have a crop of fine, equally matched players," he says. "It's going to be tough for any one of them to dominate ... but it'll be exciting to watch them try." Alexander includes in that group Hewitt, who topped the year-end rankings in 2001-02 before slipping to No. 16 last year. In the past, a plunge like that might have signaled the beginning of the end. What it means in Hewitt's case isn't clear yet. At 22, he's the same age McEnroe was when...
...inflation--or the thing itself--could also dampen stock prices. A few market watchers think the S&P 500, a popular gauge, could end 2004 flat or even down modestly, but most strategists predict that the index will gain in the upper single or lower double digits by year-end. --By Barbara Kiviat
When the average Japanese salaryman heads home each evening, you can bet the last song he wants to hear from his car radio or earphones is his company's anthem, or shaka, the corporate tune that employees are forced to sing at year-end parties and sometimes even during morning calisthenics in the factory yard. Pity, therefore, the workers of Yokohama-based Nihon Break Kogyo. After its anthem was played on a popular midnight variety show, Asahi TV's Tamori Club, so many listeners responded with requests for copies that the company decided to release the song as a single...