Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Expo in Boston, with what will surely go down as one of our era's iconic images: Gates' tousle-haired grin looming from a giant video screen over the tiny figure of Apple "adviser" Jobs, who stood on the podium watching his strange bedfellow confirm Microsoft's decision to bail out the seminal Silicon Valley start...
...year-old Mir was hit by its current plague of mishaps--onboard fires, oxygen shutdowns, a leaking cooling system, dangerous spins, power brownouts--U.S. space officials have been under pressure to stop putting astronauts aboard, a privilege costing NASA about $472 million over five years. These funds have helped bail out the strapped Russian Space Agency, which NASA wants to keep as a major player in the upcoming International Space Station. But the Russian-American partnership is in trouble on Capitol Hill, and only last week presidential science adviser John Gibbons re-emphasized that a decision to send Foale...
...from taking place. I like the idea of counseling before a license is issued. If couples truly believe they will be married "till death do us part," they may be more careful about making a commitment. And once married, in a situation where it is not as easy to bail out, more couples would try to work through their problems. Way to go, Louisiana! Pave the way for the other 49 states to follow. DEIDRA MCCARTY Pearl, Miss...
...praise him for the audacity of his crime. He took on the most dreaded intelligence agency in the world, and that gave him instant popularity." By contrast, in Washington there is only exultation. Kansi, who made incriminating statements on the plane ride to the U.S., is being held without bail in Fairfax County, Va., near CIA headquarters. Last Wednesday, when the FBI's Pickard and Carter went to meet with CIA employees in the agency's auditorium, they were given something FBI men rarely receive from their rivals: a standing ovation...
...they resort to rebellion. In March, Finance Minister Liu Zhongli acknowledged that reform of the enterprises was "important for the destiny" of the nation, but President Jiang Zemin has been moving ahead very cautiously. He seems to hope half measures like increasing worker shareholding or small-scale mergers can bail out basket cases like Shenyang...