Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Plus, you get to yell out "You're a bum!" when they drop the ball on third down...
Harvard students inexplicably drop their inhibitions at hockey games, sometimes even raising their voices to (dare I say) cheer. Would it be betrayal to support football as well...
...want to hedge against disaster, buy puts on stocks you think have further to drop, or on market indexes as a whole (your broker will be falling all over himself to explain this to you). Don't short stocks. Unless you're a very seasoned investor, it's just too risky (and it means you have to pay dividends, on top of commissions, not earn them). Buy puts only on days when the crisis seems to be over and the market has boomed -- and assume that whatever you do spend on puts is money you'll never see again. Because...
...most of the book. Not until the end does she come to grips with her capacity for denial and deception. The earlier parts are filled with foamy self- analysis. "I lived under a Damoclean sword of accusation," she writes of her childhood, "and at any given moment it could drop and cut off, if not my head, my confidence." During the primaries, she says, "I couldn't measure up, so I measured out the booze. My low opinion of myself reached a new high...
Though France's extensive nuclear-energy program has reduced its reliance on oil, growth will drop from 3.7% last year to around 2.5% this year, but is projected to rise to 2.9% in 1991. Italy, which banned the construction of nuclear plants in 1987 and is the E.C.'s largest oil importer, is more exposed. Britain is the Community's only significant crude producer; its inflation rate, already 9.8% annually, is likely to climb higher, at least in the short term. But next year, some British forecasters predict, prices could start falling...