Word: chris
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...famous--and raunchiest--radio personalities. (On the air she once asked Fabio, the romance-novel cover model, if he has "big private parts.") The mayor of Somerville, Michael Capuano, showed strength in a recent poll, but the best hope for an upset may be a wonkish venture capitalist named Chris Gabrieli, who's spending his own millions to run a campaign focused on, of all things, policy ideas. Can his fortune beat their fame...
Never before have stocks been so important a form of wealth for so many Americans, whether they hold shares directly or through mutual funds and 401(k) accounts. Forty-three percent of adult Americans hold stocks, the broadest ownership ever. And Chris Varvares, president of the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, traces more than one-third of the growth of consumer spending last year directly to the wealth effect. Economists calculate that investors tend to spend about 4 [cents] of every dollar they gain in stock-market wealth...
...There are probably smarter ways to invest money," says Barbara Ellis of the $7,000 she and husband Chris paid into Colorado's Prepaid Tuition Fund for 16-month-old Lexi's college education. "But I'm no whiz at investing, and this way I know it's taken care...
Danny Roman, a hostage negotiator for the Chicago police (Samuel L. Jackson), is falsely accused of corruption and murder. He becomes a hostage taker, hoping to put pressure on his bosses to clear his name. He'll talk only with his one equal in this dangerous line of work, Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey). Two strong actors in a strong situation: a recipe for a taut, tense, smart movie. And for a while The Negotiator is just that, with a genuinely puzzling mystery built in (if Roman isn't the killer, who is?). But Hollywood doesn't trust talk, particularly...
...track her down 13 years after their dismal senior prom date, he is doing so because he still carries a torch for her, not from an unhealthy obsession. Add to the mixture pseudo private eye Matt Healy (the wonderful Matt Dillon who nearly steals the movie), the bizarre Dom (Chris Elliott) and a slew of other comedic characters--and, voila, a hit is born...