Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just the Finns' phones we fancy. The Swedes use theirs to pay utility bills. The French use them to check flight schedules, reserve hotel rooms and scan the traffic along Le Peripherique. This month marks the birth of the mobile video phone. Where? Japan...
...year in Romania on business. He has two cell phones--one from AT&T for the States, the other from Romanian GSM carrier Connex. "You never lose a signal in Bucharest," says Meyer, "and the signal is always clear." But in New York, he can name five different spots along his 26-mile commute from Westchester to Wall Street where his phone will go dead every time. "It's maddening," he says. "We have to have a problem in New York...
Moscow has more than 5,000 federal soldiers in Dagestan, along with nearly 300 pieces of armor, 50 pieces of heavy artillery, and 30 Grad missile launchers. "This force is as formidable as it is mismanaged," comments retired Colonel Victor Baranets, a military analyst. Says an eyewitness: "The troops have neither maps nor communication. They wear broken boots and mended fatigues. They don't have warm clothes or hot food...
...mean, former President Gerald Ford, a Michigan alumnus who last week wrote an extraordinary opinion piece for the New York Times, defending the race-conscious admission policies that are at the core of the Michigan cases. Ford warned that if the courts forbid Michigan to use race, along with other factors that the school employs to select its student body--including economic standing, geographic origin, athletic and artistic achievement--they would turn back the clock to an era when minorities "were isolated and penalized for the color of their skin...or national ancestry." He recounted a revolting incident...
...managing the fallout from the disaster, and to the economic reconstruction that will follow. Whatever lessons are learned in managing the present disaster may well be tested again some time in the future. The country's largest city, Istanbul, whose population has doubled every 10 years since 1955, sits along a fault line and has long been warned to expect a devastating earthquake. "As bad as last week?s earthquake was," says Finkel, "experts agree that it wasn?t the ?big one? that Istanbul?s been warned about...