Word: austin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harbury met Everardo in Guatemala while investigating human-rights abuses there; the two were married in Austin, Tex., in September...
...Austin Bates scored 21 for Vandy and Drew Maddux had 16. Pax Whitehead, Vandy's leading scorer at 15.8 ppg, was held without a field goal until midway through the second half and finished with eight points...
...about 19--but the average dividend yield, which measures dividends as a percentage of prices, has fallen to an all-time low of less than 2%. Both gauges suggest the type of heedless buying that often precedes a bust. The public's hunger for shares has led Austin Grill, a chain of Tex-Mex eateries in the Washington area, to offer diners a helping of its new public offering along with their enchiladas. When stocks make it to menus, can the Alka-Seltzer be far behind...
...physics, Brian Kushner had an unlikely inspiration. If used cars helped push America into the automotive age, perhaps used PCs could do the same for the information era. The result: Recompute, Kushner's year-old used-computer store, which just went national. The mail-order house, based in Austin, Texas, takes personal computers with 486 or Pentium processors and refurbishes and resells them. Most of the boxes are just short of state of the art but fine for everyday computing. And at $600 to $1,000, they've quickly become a hit. The key to the business is upgrade mania...
...GWYNNE, our Austin bureau chief, has been covering labor issues for TIME on and off for the past nine years, first as Detroit bureau chief and later as national economic correspondent. His story this week on the dramatic showdown at American Airlines presented him with an unusual twist: the pilots' strike deadline came at just about the same time as our editorial deadline, so Gwynne had to fashion most of his story without knowing whether the pilots would walk out. "I reported it as though we were heading toward a major strike," he says, "while at the same time rooting...