Word: acapulco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force's precision-flying team, is now retired but still flies his own homemade, acrobatic RV-4 aircraft. "The T-41 is your grandmother's airplane," says McPeak of the T-3's predecessor. "Our mission is to train warrior-pilots, not dentists to fly their families to Acapulco...
...four living in Mexico City, was shot and killed by taxi pirates in the posh Polanco neighborhood. Just days before, another U.S. businessman was savagely beaten after stepping into a taxi outside the Sheraton Hotel, next door to the U.S. embassy. A week earlier the U.S. manager of an Acapulco hotel was kidnapped by men wearing police uniforms...
...loves beautiful clothes, I was stunned by the murder of Versace. My heart aches for his family. The one dinner dress I own that never fails to elicit compliments from women and men alike is a Versace. Bravo, Gianni! Now you'll be gowning the angels. PATRICIA DE CORDOVA Acapulco, Mexico...
Spring break comes, and a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of fun and sun; our trip to Acapulco and Mexico City did not disappoint, even though I had my wallet stolen on a Mexico City subway platform and even though our form--with the key exception of senior co-captain Ed Boyda--was unexceptional. But thereafter, the season turns back into the wind and rain of Massachusetts, and once more we were back to playing golf in conditions that begged for galoshes and thermals, not softspikes and shorts...
...that serves as a useful lesson in understanding what happens in the IPO market when stock prices are soaring, as they are now. The lesson is this: anything goes. So-so companies are fetching top dollar from the public, while insiders and early investors head for the exits and Acapulco. Some 125 companies are waiting their turn at this sucker's market, readying some $3 billion in stock for initial sale. A record-shattering 799 companies have sold $47 billion in stock through IPOs this year...