Word: across
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also not something you'll find by taking the Crimson Key tour or joining every club at the activities fair. It might catch you off-guard one night walking across the Yard late at night, or perhaps as you sit in the library studying for the 18th hour for your exam the next morning...
...some, it already is. United Artists Theatre Group, which runs more than 2,000 screens across the country, has recently been working with bankers to avoid defaulting on hundreds of millions of dollars in loans; it blames its woes on declining attendance and high real estate costs...
...sense of a saturated market, take in a show in Ontario, Calif., where rivals AMC and Edwards Theatres have set up megaplexes with a combined 52 screens practically across the street from each other. While both theaters claim to make a profit, neither is happy. Apparently, though, the rest of the industry hasn't learned its lesson: developers in Chicago are building two neighboring theaters in a similar face-off. Says Jeff Blake, president of worldwide distribution at Columbia Pictures: "Building screens at $1 million each and closing theaters that aren't fully amortized has to hurt...
...bill of its own this fall, and some private groups are threatening lawsuits to force the issue. Even without legal action, public opinion is turning a more skeptical eye on GM technology. "The farmers in France are right," observes Dennis Kucinich, a House Democrat from Cleveland, Ohio, who stumbled across the GM-food issue in the spring, and is turning it into something of a cause. "There's nothing more personal than food...
Things are not looking particularly good for the late great planet Earth. Things are looking very, very bad. Two hundred million demonic horsemen are galloping across the smoky skies, and a third of the world's people will be slain--a third of those who remain, that is, following the recent Christian Rapture, which has literally snatched believers from cars and offices and carried them off bodily to heaven. Among those left behind to battle evil as part of the rag-tag "Tribulation Force" are Rayford Steele, a former commercial-airline pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, publisher of the cyberjournal...