Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mutual-fund business, biggest is very often best. Not only will well-established outfits like the Vanguard Group, American Funds and broker Merrill Lynch probably still be in business when you retire, but they also offer a plethora of funds and a wide range of services--from retirement planning to checking accounts. Says Dan Wiener, editor of Independent Advisor for Vanguard Investors, which tracks funds managed by the Vanguard Group: "There is a desire to be all things to all people. It's the supermarket approach...
...ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group known as the FDN, sold tons of coke to a notorious Los Angeles-based dealer named Freeway Rick Ross. Millions of dollars, according to Webb, were then sent back to the secret war against the leftist Sandinista regime. Webb provides a plethora of court documents, recorded interviews and photographs, all of which have been posted on the Mercury's site on the World Wide Web www.sjmercury.com/drugs/)...
Given to the plethora of political observers who gave the winning nod to Yale graduate John F. Kerry instead of former Adams House resident and Harvard grad William F. Weld...
However, one of the most profound things I've learned from this plethora of international students is that learning languages (especially English) is vitally important. Why else would these students spend thousands of dollars to live in Cambridge for such a relatively short amount of time? Essentially, there is no other reason; these students are serious about learning English and they believe that living...
...most unique pool of students in the country. We are assumed to be the exemplars of well-roundedness, or else we might never have been granted acceptance. We cannot possibly be a mere collection of lopsided, talent-specific individuals, but we must each know about a plethora of subjects. Maybe according to our grandmothers that is true, but in reality we are unable to step outside our itsy-bitsy space of academic interest...