Word: toothness
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...makes the pros nervous. "By the 5th of November, if we don't have a 10% drop, we will have had the longest-running stock-market expansion in modern times," says A. Michael Lipper, president of Lipper Analytical Services, which tracks mutual funds. "We're clearly long in the tooth." Says Dan Case, president of the San Francisco-based brokerage Hambrecht & Quist: "If you look at the investment options, it's clear that mutual funds have been the right decision, but I think we're getting close to the point where that's no longer true...
During the lecture, the professor told a story about a man who conducted a popular survey in order to assign a unitary value to different types of pain. The survey listed four or five supposedly painful experiences--from having a tooth pulled, to having a little toe cut off, to living in Kansas for eternity--and asked the respondent to put down how much money he/she would have to be paid to experience each...
...Women often want to explore the philosophical, medical and spiritual aspects of terminating a pregnancy," Gould said. "It's not just like pulling a tooth...
...away. Later, a journalist asked a sensitive question: If the old man hadn't been admitted, would it have been a form of rationing, er, "prioritizing"? This time the President answered, knowing the question was really about his own plan. "I'm not just trying to be the tooth fairy here," he said. "Every system has some rationing. The system we're in now severely rations care in all kinds of ways...
...Jane wiggled a loose tooth in her mouth. 'Picnic, S'ta Keatin...