Word: bet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long before the rest of us do, vibrations so strong they demand action--action that can seem rash, even stupid. Ferry owner Cornelius Vanderbilt jumped ship when he saw the railroads coming. Thomas Watson Jr., overwhelmed by his sense that computers would be everywhere even when they were nowhere, bet his father's office-machine company...
...physicists, then, time is an exceedingly complex and slippery concept. No wonder St. Augustine couldn't explain it. But when the month, the year, the century and the millennium end next week, it's a fair bet that theoretical physicists, like the rest of us, will be partying to welcome in the year 2000--whether it really exists...
Drinking moderately or not at all is of course your best bet for a problem-free New Year's Day. And we'll just assume you know better than to drink and drive. But if you do get plastered, be sure to quaff plenty of water, since alcohol acts like a diuretic, flushing fluids out of your system. A good rule of thumb is to drink a glass of water for every glass of wine or beer you have, and more for hard liquor...
...stodgy as his social life was edgy. He spent hours poring over technical charts, and then steered his clients to blue chips like Merck and AT&T. But somewhere along the way, he was seduced by the adrenaline rush of higher risk. His Cassandra Group investment management company bet heavily on Iridium, the global telephone satellite firm that filed for bankruptcy last summer. He also invested in Paradise Music & Entertainment, which was paying him to serve as a consultant. (Giacchetto says he informed most of his clients of the arrangement...
...hapless initiates butchering that modern-day ballad by the Backstreet Boys, but fewer were pleased when they brought their chickens into the classroom. How did professors feel when the first 15 minutes of their class were taken up by the vocal displays of these would-be club members? We bet they weren't all that happy...