Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Under the commando-efficient direction of Taylor Hackford (The Devil's Advocate), the film intelligently deploys familiar thriller elements: chases; shoot-outs; high-level duplicity; terse, sassy dialogue; and a cast having a high time playing preening villains and wily good guys. Even Ryan, with too much attitude and nonstop nutating, finally gets into the film's burly spirit. All this is enough to stoke the action engine, but the movie has a fuller agenda--to give its characters flesh and a meaningful melancholy...
...Insider and Gladiator; it makes him the thinking man's grunt, and it grounds his can-this-be-love scene with Ryan. "Just tell me you know how much you mean to me," she says dewily. His reply shows a tough man's brusque vulnerability: "Then we're even...
Five years to get even? My sense is that many, if not most, individuals harbor hope that tech stocks, which dominate the NASDAQ, will spring back to life much sooner than that. With the NASDAQ down nearly 50%, it's logical to presume it has no place to go but up. Logical, but not necessarily correct. We're unwinding a bubble, and it's going to take time. Even when the decline finally ends, there will be no fast recovery...
Here's some basic math. The NASDAQ has lost half its value. To get even, it must double. At 10% a year, money doubles in about seven years. That gets you the drawn-out recovery. Yet no-dividend growth stocks should compound at 12% to 15%, implying a recovery in about five years. And I believe the market has muscle memory; having been there once, it's easier to get back. My prediction? Three years. Odds are I'm wrong. What's important, though, is that I'm mentally set for a grind. Go ahead, Mr. Market, surprise me, pleeeeze...
QUICK AND DIRTY DOESN'T ALWAYS PAY. Nearly every travel site has a five-second, fill-in-the-blank form on its home page. And such sites as priceline.com and newcomer hotwire.com make it easy to find cut rates not offered elsewhere. With those services, though, you don't even know your exact route or departure time until after you commit to a nonrefundable ticket. If you are flexible about the date you want to travel, dig deeper, and you'll do better. On Expedia, click instead on the FareCalendar or the "build your own flight" option for the best...