Word: across
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally looked up at me, expecting a little resistance but eventual capitulation, I was stuck. Did I ever say no to Secret Santa? Didn't I not happily accept miniature bodies of suspiciously perfumed bubble bath, oversized faux-gold earrings and Santa Clause candle-holders with a smile pasted across my face? As he pushed the form across the table, I could only think of my grandmother opening the mailbox and looking at a similar set of blanks, all with a dollar sign at the end. How did it feel? Pretty similar. What would...
Which brings us to greater Atlanta, 1999. Once a wilderness, it's now a 13-county eruption, one that has been called the fastest-spreading human settlement in history. Already more than 110 miles across, up from just 65 in 1990, it consumes an additional 500 acres of field and farmland every week. What it leaves behind is tract houses, access roads, strip malls, off ramps, industrial parks and billboards advertising more tract houses where the peach trees used to be. Car exhaust is such a problem that Washington is withholding new highway funding until the region complies with federal...
...shifted to other parts of the booming economy. The result is lower inflation and higher growth, with savings that show up on everything from home- heating bills to airline fuel and utility charges. Says Cynthia Latta, principal U.S. economist at Standard & Poors/DRI: "Higher oil prices will be widely felt across the economy, but they are not likely to pose an immediate threat to continued low inflation and robust consumer spending...
Downplaying Fox's gains, MSNBC executives point out that it draws more viewers in the key 25-to-54 age group sought by advertisers and that its audience is spread more widely across the Internet and other NBC-owned channels. (Brian Williams' nightly newscast, for example, is repeated an hour later on cnbc.) Though conservative hosts John McLaughlin and Oliver North were brought onboard during Monicagate, MSNBC executives may be rethinking their saturation-talk approach. "We'll be all over the next big story," says vice president Erik Sorenson, "but not in exactly the same way. We learned something about...
...successful rookie season confirmed and enhanced the DiMaggio mystique. The next year, a radio broadcaster called him "the Yankee Clipper," a tribute to the way he sailed so majestically while pursuing fly balls across the green expanses of center field. His batting skill won him the sobriquet "Joltin' Joe." Meanwhile, the young man from Fisherman's Wharf was acquiring a Manhattan polish. He took up tailored suits and the high life at Toots Shor's nightclub, where the habitues treated him like a god who had inexplicably deigned to join their mortal company. He dated beautiful women, including actress Dorothy...