Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world-changing new technology, what does your modern-day greedy capitalist do? Build a theme park! That Barnumesque observation (a tad dated in this age of tech multibillionaires) isn't the only thing that's overfamiliar in this dull time-travel tale from the author of Jurassic Park. Here, America's favorite didact is out to learn us a thing or two about quantum mechanics and taking history seriously. His highly educated, lightly characterized academic heroes get their soft hands roughed up battling 14th century knights rather than prehistoric raptors. Crichton has clearly learned from his best-selling history...
Soon I had a fan club. My name was chanted by people I had never met, and I felt the warm, soft love America feels for pathetic losers. It felt good...
...story be a warning. On the first week of Millionaire, contestant Paul Locharernkul said to Regis, "I feel like I'm sitting on the toilet and all of America is watching me." Think about it: even if you ace the questions, you might say something like that on prime-time television. So, please, if you need to gamble your dignity, do it by videotaping your kid throwing a basketball at your groin and sending it to America's Funniest Home Videos. That's easy money...
...Legislators in several cities, angered by rising ATM fees, have simply outlawed them. But last week the banks struck back. Wells Fargo and Bank of America began barring noncustomers from using their ATMs in Santa Monica, Calif., after the city council banned surcharges. San Francisco residents may soon be facing the same fate. "The banks have a right to earn a return on their investment," argues Joseph Morford, a banking analyst for Dain Rauscher Wessels in San Francisco. The machines cost up to $50,000 each. But consumers now appear to be lowering their own costs by cutting back...
Leaking to the press is second nature in Washington, but it's unheard-of in Cairo - and that may be jeopardizing America's key strategic relationship in the Arab world. As National Transportation Safety Board officials worked with their Egyptian counterparts in Cairo to solve the EgyptAir 990 mystery, the Egyptian press Monday took aim at the latest round of leaked revelations concerning the contents of the doomed plane's voice-data recorder. Although the two sides are cooperating closely at the top, press coverage of NTSB leaks - and the Egyptian pooh-poohing of such conjecture - has made life difficult...