Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for giving stock tips to a friend. "It wasn't until I saw the subpoena that I saw a name attached to this so-called friend," says John Duffy, the firm's current CEO. "Clearly there were things he didn't tell us. Fortunately, Jim has been gone for six months. I kind of wish it was six years...
...pundits tell us that the central division in our transnational world is between the "slow" cultures of the plow and the "fast" ones of the microchip, the gap between them accelerating at an unprecedented rate. But what is more of a vexation in our modern times--a temporal Tower of Babel, as you could call it--is that everything's mixed up: fast and slow are present in every country, often, and in every household. Ancient cultures, as in India and China, are eager to invite the future to come to stay, so long as it doesn't interfere with...
Minghella does not let Ripley off that easily. He devises two characters who fall for the killer and get in his way: a sweet, rich buttinsky (Blanchett) and a gentle homosexual (Davenport). Can he kiss them, or kiss them off, without bumping them off? We won't tell, but we will say that Tom has second thoughts about his addiction to killing the things he loves. The film lets Tom off the hook for the murders of Dickie and Freddie. Then it creates a new hook and leaves you wondering if Ripley will hang from...
...funny. I always tell people that if they would just spend the same amount of time analyzing the stock market that they do the sports pages, they could make a fortune picking stocks. Now, given the time I spent setting up my league--vs. the rigor of picking 14 teams in my Fantasy Football League this weekend--I have the proof. Just as in sports, youth matters. As of last Friday, my 23-year-old associate Matt is up 26.1% to my 19%, helped by a 50% jump in his Internet Capital Group. I'm being hurt by AskJeeves, down...
...Sources tell TIME the suit could also name the Democratic National Committee and RICHARD TRUMKA, No. 2 at the AFL-CIO. Current Teamster president JAMES P. HOFFA says he and his legal team will "soon decide" who gets named...