Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people understand this; in one city we know of, there are two Starbucks located two blocks apart on the same street, and both do a rousing business...
...what they stand to lose. And so last week, as a blizzard shut down the government they had just reopened, President Clinton and the Republican leaders of Congress were still saying that it was in America's interest to reach a budget deal, that they weren't very far apart, that they had everything to gain by making peace and much to lose by fighting on, that the markets would shriek if the talks ruptured. And yet there came a moment when they all quietly reached the same conclusion. To varying degrees, they all wanted a deal, they all needed...
Gramm is trying to make up in well-practiced humility what he lacks in charisma. His shoes are falling apart, he explains, and his watch is broken. Six or seven times a day, he ventures into rented halls and coffee shops and describes himself as the late-blooming son of a hardscrabble family who "flunked the third, seventh and ninth grades" and still got a Ph.D. He recalls after his father died watching how his mother and older brother would sit around the kitchen table each month and decide which bills to pay. The bootstrap imagery is designed to dilute...
...explains P&G chemist Ron Janacek, are too large to pass unaltered through the mucous membrane of the small intestine and into the bloodstream. With triglycerides, an intestinal enzyme known as lipase acts as a kind of molecular scissors, fitting into slots between the fatty acids and snipping them apart. But when there are too many fatty acids clumped too close together, as happens with olestra and other types of sucrose polyester, these slots are concealed and the enzyme cannot...
Still, a divorcing of the Waleses would have several gray areas--apart from the spectacle of the perpetual Windsors of discontent. Diana, for one, will always be the mother of William, presumably the next King but one. By tradition, a postdivorce Diana would retain the title Princess of Wales unless she remarried. The Queen might even allow her, as a courtesy, to remain "Her Royal Highness," a title reserved for those who are heir to the throne or married to the heir. Financial support and access to the children have probably already been worked out. But Diana's aspiration...