Word: towards
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...appreciation that has become increasingly vital for kids, says David Brady, manager of the Stein Roe Young Investor Fund, a mutual fund geared toward children and young adults. "With the future of the social security system in doubt and with pension plans dying out as a concept, these young people will have much more responsibility for their financial future than prior generations," Brady says. "They need to have good fiscal sense...
Educational programs sponsored by community leaders like Hughes can go a long way toward teaching kids the basics of money management. And other experts like Junior Achievement, the Stein Roe Young Investor Fund and Merrill Lynch offer parents plenty of help (see accompanying box). But sometimes a kid just has to learn the hard...
...constitutional option. In his view, if the House votes down impeachment, that's the end of it. But the G.O.P. is also mindful that its Christian conservative base will not be happy. That's why House Republicans last week looked like Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk--imitating forward movement toward impeachment while in reality backing away. Though Hyde said right after the election that Starr would be his committee's sole major witness, committee aides were suggesting he may call others, including presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey...
...clock on Thursday afternoon in August 1996, when a dense gray cloud descended over Route 73, a two-lane road near Geismar, La., cutting visibility to zero and triggering a rear-end collision. As State Trooper Ross Johnson, a fresh-faced, 25-year-old Marine Corps veteran, drove toward the accident, he noted that every car headed his way had headlights on and windshield wipers flapping. When Johnson got out of his patrol car, he suddenly got hit by the heavy smell of ammonia. He ushered the drivers of the two cars out of the cloud and into a guard...
...even know where to start eating and so lay our fork down next to the bowl and stare uncomfortably as the vegetables talk among themselves. They speak of things, shared experiences and hidden flavors we never knew existed. In our insecurity, we detect an angry stare from the tomatoes toward our untomato-ness, and we shrink away from the plate...