Word: arens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Global Warming Goes Down to the Wire There's only a day left in Kyoto to come to agreement on keeping carbon dioxide emissions down. The Chairman's optimistic, but developing nations aren't coming on board...
...page plan to fix the health-care system. Three years after the death of that plan, things have changed so much that today Clinton could run the ad to make his own point. That's because there's a new bogeyman: managed care. "Clinton's bureaucrats aren't any different than managed-care-company bureaucrats," says Republican Representative Charlie Norwood of Georgia...
...Others aren't so lucky. According to a 1995 Massachusetts study, 62% of students identifying themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual said they had been in a fight in the previous year, in contrast to 37% of all students. According to the Gay-Lesbian-Straight Network's Jennings, administrators often do little to stop the violence. Some of the stories are harrowing. Jamie Nabozny, who in the early '90s attended high school in Ashland, Wis., says he was kicked in the stomach so many times he required surgery. A group of boys also urinated on him. Robert McDonald...
...money back? Aren't the studios in business to turn a profit? Normally, yes. But nothing about Titanic is normal. After an arduous shoot during which Mechanic fought bitterly with Cameron and even more bitterly with Paramount Pictures, Fox's partner on the film, Mechanic admits to spending a smidgen less than $200 million. (That's without the additional millions it will cost to market it.) The picture will have to gross about $350 million for Fox to break even...
...lovers aren't taking this kick in the rear without a yelp. "I don't think the model is threatened," says Tom Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool Website, where an estimated 200,000 "fools" play some version of the Dow dogs. Stan Craig, head of UIT sales at Merrill Lynch (which controls $10 billion in Dow-dog assets), notes that a buy-and-hold investor in the first "Select 10" UIT in 1991 would be up 184% by now, vs. 171% for the Dow. But clearly the advantages first noted by O'Higgins have eroded. Morningstar Inc. studied...