Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to admit it. I was a skeptic. Then "Steelers Roll Left" came along and altered all noteworthy human events from now until eternity. OK, it was "just" the national championship picture...
...financial advice with stories about the personalities of today's Wall Street, which he describes as somewhat kinder and gentler than in the greed-filled '80s yet "still plenty exciting with the push to be global and America's renewed interest in mutual funds." This week he offers a skeptic's take on the stock market as it continues its record-setting bull run. "Don't be blindsided," he suggests bearishly. "The market keeps on chugging, but it has to disappoint a lot of people at some point...
...advantages and imperatives of being a knockout babe. Johnson's rendition, in the Larry Grossman musical Paper Moon, is a KO as well; she coos, she beguiles, she does everything but bump it with a trumpet. It's the sort of turn to persuade even a show-biz skeptic that, yes, the Broadway musical is alive and well...
...biggest skeptic was Lotus chairman Jim Manzi, 43, who had spurned an IBM merger offer in January and learned of the takeover attempt in a phone call from Gerstner at 8:25 a.m. last Monday, five minutes before IBM went public. Manzi swiftly hired investment banker Lazard Freres to plot defense tactics and search for a white knight, such as AT&T or Hewlett-Packard, that would rescue Lotus. No savior had appeared by week's end, however, and Manzi seemed resigned to coming to terms with IBM if it would sweeten its offer. Wall Street watchers expected...
...alleviate tension and anxiety. But Selby asks, "Why doesn't the nurse just come in and sit on the side of the patient's bed and talk, perhaps hold his hand? It would have the same effect." And in a column in the Toronto Star, Henry Gordon, a local skeptic, likened that relief to the placebo effect, which, he wrote, "makes TT no different from the laying on of hands." Dr. William Jarvis, president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, in Loma Linda, California, agrees: "I see therapeutic touch as a form of faith healing that has captured...