Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, maybe these reflexes aren't so surprising. Everyone has heard stories of the Depression-era parents or grandparents who were still recycling string and splitting two-ply toilet paper long after their portfolios had reached seven figures. There is something about even a glimpse of poverty, much less the experience of it, that leaves scars, of humiliation and terror and resolve not ever to live there again. In a restless age, when the days are long and dense and full of surprises, when industries change overnight, it's little wonder that it's harder to dream, easier...
These companies are pouring record sums into capital improvements, adding fast chair lifts and such amusements as skating rinks and snow-tubing shoots to attract more nonskiing vacationers or at least divert them while their partners, spouses and children are on the slopes. The resorts aren't just competing against one another. Leisure dollars are also coveted by the cruise industry, which has spent billions upgrading its capacity, as well as by theme parks and other family destinations...
...problem." In this he was supported by the sober-looking crowd at the front of the ballroom. "You look at that," said Barbara Johns, whose 18-year-old daughter Courtney was the first victim identified after the crash, "and you wonder, If these are known safety problems, why aren't they correcting them before people die? That's the answer we'd like--because people we love are still flying...
Awaiting a Change of Korea South Korea's top dissident ? and new president ? plots his course, including plans for reunification. But the boys on the trading floor aren't too enthusiastic...
...South Korea, and the country has begun appealing to its economic saviors - the U.S., Japan and the International Monetary Fund - to step up the pace of getting money into the country, reports Money Daily. The only problem is that Seoul may not get the dough; Tokyo and Washington aren't convinced the country needs an immediate infusion...