Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Wall Street, they're talking about a summer-long rally as though it were some kind of birthright. Right on cue, the wags note, stocks began shooting higher after Memorial Day. We've survived April showers, or as was the case this year, an April deluge; sunny days must lie ahead. I sure hate to warn of more rain. But the annual summer rally that traders often speak of is unspectacular at best, and this year there's this little matter of being in a bear market...
...vignettes. In the first one, the birthday boy is allowed to help the grownups hoe the cornfield in preparation for spring planting. Thrilled at this recognition of his new maturity, Jim listens to Uncle Zeno explain how to use the hoe and then sets to work. After a while, though, the task becomes less thrilling. He puts down his hoe and starts throwing rocks: "When Jim picked up his hoe, he noticed that it was about the length of a baseball bat. He grasped the handle right above the blade and took a couple of practice swings. He found...
...Though a lot of the devices featured in your wireless-world story were certainly nifty, the human stories that were tucked into the article were pretty awful. How horrifying to think one must always be connected to work, that getting that call or that e-mail is so important that you must immediately respond to it. How in the world can it be progress to give up all rights to a private life just because it's possible to do so? Are we turning into some sort of automaton consumers who live for commerce, or will we retain the spiritual...
This time around, though, the ad was sponsored by a secretive tax-exempt group called Shape the Debate, which has ties to former G.O.P. California Governor Pete Wilson. Shape the Debate and its kin, including three groups tied to House G.O.P. whip Tom DeLay, don't have to disclose their donors or their spending so long as they don't say "vote for" or "vote against" a candidate. Also, they're not supposed to coordinate their work with that of a candidate...
...Jovon, though smart, clever and exceedingly charming when explaining how he was framed for the wet-toilet-paper fight in the bathroom, didn't seem so psyched on Stanford despite our admittedly exaggerated description of seminars on video games. And the instrument thing, partly owing to some oboe trash talking on my part, wasn't going anywhere. There were nights when I dreamed of switching him with Elian, but that may have been more about my freakish need for media attention...