Word: schroeder
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With that theme of loving losers--even Charlie Brown's baseball idol, Joe Shlabotnik, was the worst player in the pros--came the corollary, losing at love. Every major character has an unrequited love--Charlie Brown and the little red-haired girl, Lucy and Schroeder, Linus and Miss Othmar. Even Snoopy got dumped at the altar. Happiness may be a warm puppy, but as Schulz once said, "Happiness is not very funny." Schulz infused the strips with his lifelong feelings of depression and insecurity--he had his heart broken by a real-life red-haired girl--and they showed, Camus...
...Buffett has rebalanced Berkshire in startling fashion. The company's vaunted stock portfolio accounts for just 33% of Berkshire's total assets. As recently as 1995, the stocks accounted for a whopping 76% of assets. "To keep thinking of Berkshire as a big stock fund is absurd," asserts Alice Schroeder, an insurance analyst at PaineWebber. She began covering the company this year, underscoring Berkshire's insurance bent...
RELEASED. KATHERINE ANN POWER, 50, former student radical; after serving six years in prison for manslaughter in the 1970 death of police officer Walter Schroeder during an armed bank robbery; in Framingham, Mass. Power, who drove the getaway car, spent 23 years underground and surrendered...
Buttles blasted a shot over the Quaker netminder Matt Schroeder's right shoulder to give Harvard its biggest win of the year. The sophomore exploded for five goals in the contest, and it appeared that Harvard would have enough scoring potential to be competitive in the conference...
...Schroeder has attempted to follow in the footsteps of Clinton and Britain's Tony Blair by combining traditional liberal and social democratic concerns with strict fiscal discipline. But the political center in Germany is well to the left of its American equivalent - even conservative governments have traditionally maintained a level of welfare provision that would make Ted Kennedy blush. "Social Democratic supporters have been shocked by Schroeder?s plans, because they?re so unlike the party?s traditional policies," says Sautter. And while Clinton?s policies were put before the voters at two-year intervals, an ongoing series of state...