Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that when push came to shove this spring, Gates suddenly started tossing out concessions like bonbons, however, tends to suggest that deep down he's known all along things aren't quite that simple. The past few weeks have been tough on Microsoft. Everyone from the DOJ to foreign governments to a growing band of state attorneys general stood ready to take the company to court. Its latest bumbling p.r. gambit--trotting out computer-industry execs like windup toys to halfheartedly raise the specter of widespread economic disaster should Win 98 be delayed, even for a matter of months...
...time before Sinatra and the Rat Pack came back into fashion. Uncombed hair and flannel shirts cried out for a counterattack of sharp dressing and flip courtliness with women. Thus "lounge music," cool and dressy, then swing music, hot and dressy, plus a bar scene where lounge lizards aren't dinosaurs anymore. Then the film Swingers, about two guys making their way through the world on terms they borrowed from Frank's life and works. The past year also saw the publication of two histories of the Rat Pack; a pair of Rat Pack movies are in the works...
...business-oriented hotel-occupancy rates have dropped, and the city-state's premier Suntec convention center is experiencing 15% to 18% fewer visitors and exhibitors than previously. "People are coming to troubleshoot," says Renton de Alwis, head of the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore. But clearly, they aren't staying long enough to help the ailing tourism industry...
...that all Asian countries are not suffering equally. In Japan, where inbound business travel went up 7.6% last year between January and November, air fares and hotel rates won't show the dramatic declines seen in, say, Malaysia and Indonesia. And no matter how savvy, individual travelers or companies aren't always equipped to negotiate the best deals. "I was attending a conference in Bangkok, and when we called this hotel, we were charged $85 a night," says Helen Peterson, spokeswoman for the Asia division of the Pacific Asia Travel Association, a travel-industry advisory group. "But a good travel...
...fast service doesn't happen "if your consumers aren't asking for it," says John Pike, an intelligence analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. With the Administration convinced that India had no plans to explode a nuclear device, the satellites were snapping photos of Pokhran only once every six to 24 hours. Indian scientists, who knew the satellites' schedule, concealed their preparations so the photos CIA analysts scanned in the weeks before Monday's blasts showed what appeared to be routine maintenance...