Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cavalry has arrived, but they're much less use than we thought. The two-man rescue team of Commander Anatoly Solovyov and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov finally docked with Mir this afternoon. It turns out, however, that they can't do anything to fix the crippled space station's oxygen generators...
Instead, the 204 men and 57 women of Bravo Company spent the afternoon walking the course, looking more like the slo-mo replay of an N.F.L. game than the cutting edge of the 21st century U.S. Army. "There isn't any training value in walking the course," McQueen groused. Even his recruits were unimpressed. "I expected basic training to be tough, like the movies," says Private Jerry Brunelle. "This is more like summer camp...
Escape was paramount. When the owner of the boat returned on the afternoon of July 16, Cunanan fled. But where could he hide? In the first 48 hours after he shot Versace, Cunanan phoned a friend in California and asked for help obtaining a passport and false identification so he could leave the country. About 10 mutual acquaintances came up in the discussion. FBI agents who had been methodically contacting his known associates found the man Cunanan called, forcing him to divulge the potential sources of false paperwork. And before Cunanan could reach those people, the FBI was waving them...
...buzz is, "How do I get in the market?" not "How do I get out?" But make no mistake, the stock market could crash again. Mechanically, there is nothing in place to guarantee that the Dow won't fall 1000 points by lunch and another 800 points in the afternoon. Get real! An 1,800-point decline today would be the same 23% drop that occurred on Oct. 19, 1987. And that plunge took place after the Dow had already fallen 17% from its speculative peak three months earlier, which was 10 years ago this month. An exact recurrence would...
Already I can smell trouble. Then the second E-mail arrives from DeBice. "For reasons yet to be understood," she says, "you received messages from one of our members, Denny Reikert. Denny Reikert was found dead yesterday afternoon...