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Word: afters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Foul play is confirmed, but the identity of the players may make for the great murder mystery of international finance. Edmond Safra, owner of the Republic National Bank of New York and one of the world's richest men, was murdered Friday in Monte Carlo after two knife-wielding hooded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banker's Killing: A Case of From Russia With Hate? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

The attack came as Safra was moving to complete the sale of Republic National to the London-based HSBC banking group for $10.3 billion. He'd been forced to reduce his price by $450 million after Japanese financial regulators claimed that one of Safra's clients, Princeton Analytics, may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banker's Killing: A Case of From Russia With Hate? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Although the Dow later backed off the record high, the euphoria may be a product of a paradigm shift in the shaping of economic indicators. After all, it seems counterintuitive that wage inflation wouldn't increase with the ever-expanding job market. "But this may show some things about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Gobs of Jobs Send Stocks Soaring Skyward | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Fortunately, for NASA, the second time's the charm - or so it seems. On Friday, the space agency's engineers celebrated the fact that, as far as they could tell, the second of their two $100 million Martian landers didn't get lost in space. All indications were that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Polar Lander Hits, Then Gets Ready to Listen to Mars | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Finally, these combat boots got to do a little walking. After a 12-day eternity of mostly forming up, falling out and standing, standing, standing around, we were herded out through the barn doors of our everyday and shown some semblance of that most precious commodity here, space.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Private Is the Last Thing You Can Be | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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