Word: shorting
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Unlike many big hitters, Tiger has a delicate touch for the short shots around the green. He is an excellent clutch putter. He has practiced diligently since he was a child. But what I've found most impressive about Tiger is his mental game. He has studied the swings of other great players, how they think about golf. He can remember the exact yardage he faced on each approach shot days after a round. He is driven to be the best golfer who ever played, and if he has a worry, it's that if he marries and has children...
...hard for parents to fall short, says David Elkind, professor of child development at Tufts University and author of The Hurried Child. "There's a time famine," he says. "Jobs are becoming more and more demanding, and when something has to give, it may well be involvement with kids' schooling." More than a third of kids surveyed say they want to spend more time with their parents. The biggest obstacle to being together? "Works a lot," say kids...
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...make sure each morning to layer the deodorant on because you know that there will be the short people on the train that will be forced, like it or not, to smell your armpit. You hope to God that it lasts all day and through the ride home. If it doesn't, you hope to God that they don't blame you for it, even though you know that there really isn't anything...
...earnings - those silly numbers that didn't matter anymore in the dot-economy, matter again. This was a week in which more than 32 companies said they would fall short of Wall Street profit forecasts, and with the heart of earnings-announcement season just a few weeks away, the markets found themselves in a pessimistic mood. Investors now have the better part of four days to ask themselves the big questions: Will the news be as bad as we fear? Did Greenspan go too far, and kill our corporate good times? How do I keep my tan from peeling? Tune...