Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oracle of Omaha" lost it? Please. He suffers from technophobia and has thus missed out on a big part of what's been driving the stock market. Meanwhile, those big-brand names he loves have been laggards. But it's hard to make the case that in the very long term--and Buffett believes in holding for life--stocks like Gillette and Coke won't come back...
...this project. But they were also persuaded by our regional ambassador, team member and Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill, whose father is superintendent of another suburban St. Louis school district. "Having grown up in a family of public school educators," says Stodghill, "I've seen firsthand the dedication and hard work of these people under fairly trying circumstances...
...house Ursa Major. "It has a certain beauty and power and grace and majesty," he wrote. "And it represents something real, enduring, eternal. It's not just a nursery-rhyme reference to my height or some inanimate object." He added, "It's bigger than life itself," not indicating how hard that was to bear...
...admitting women. Being all male hasn't always been easy for Wabash--especially after it voted down co-education in 1992. Right-wing think tanks, hoping to adopt the college as a mascot, mounted a nasty campaign to roll back the school's long history of multicultural studies, while hard-core feminists stormed the campus with politically correct, male-bashing lectures like "Athletes as Rapists...
Unlike other cancers, lung cancer is extremely hard to detect in its earliest, most treatable stages. Even so, about 20% of lung-cancer patients are found to have a tumor whose biological characteristics and small size give them a good chance of being cured if the malignant growth is surgically removed...