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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Gardner has the aw-shucks routine down pat. "I didn't think I could beat him. But I grew up on a farm where you just go forward and get the job done," he said. "Even though I wasn't thinking I was going to win, I was going to work as hard as I could." The only other time the two met, in a 1997 world-championship round, Karelin obliterated him. "When he threw me, my feet almost hit the back of my head. That's not a good thing," he recalled...
Live events were similarly jollied up. With baseball, a sport with which locals are not overly familiar, Australia showed that it's possible to outdo even Triple-A ballparks with cartoonish bells and whistles. At every foul ball, loudspeakers blasted the sound of smashing glass--even if they were grounders. One can't help feeling there's a lesson here for the steeplechase or dressage. Those top hats are just begging for a visual...
...window treatments. "What have you done to the swag?" I asked, eyeing a mess on the living-room floor that would never, ever again hang in crisp folds across a decorative rod. "I figured it was time to let the drapes do some work," he said. What drapes? Even the cat knew we had nothing hidden up there. Just the, uh, former swag...
...worry; we'll muddle through. Luckily, a marriage is not doomed even if spouses have conflicting expectations. The important thing, Epstein says, is to recognize those disparities and negotiate compromises acceptable to both. In our case, that turned out to be: 1) he does the dishes; 2) I take out the garbage; and 3) Venetian blinds...
...trying to invest around the weak euro, avoid companies with extensive operations abroad. Those tend to be consumer-product giants like Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble, typically thought to be defensive investments. Tech stocks fall into the same trap. Even those without European operations aim to benefit from business there. Your salvation may be in oil, natural gas and electric utilities. Although they've run up, these stocks look best from a risk-reward point of view...