Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...industry? While such a deal in any other sector would spark worries about concentration of market share and reduced competition, the classic rules of economics have long been suspended in the defense industry, Thompson notes. "There's just one customer: the government. It's never been that competitive to begin with." If the merger comes off, the Pentagon will be mightily dependent upon three big defense contractors: Lockheed/Northrop, Boeing/McDonnell and Raytheon, which recently put in a bid for General Electric's Hughes Electronics. Maybe then they will merge...
Today, graduates must begin burdensome payments on their student loans six months after graduation. Our economy suffers as a result because these graduates are unable to buy homes or start businesses...
...color footage of life in the deep. For the wiry, red-capped Frenchman, exploring every nook and cranny of every ocean on the globe for such hugely popular television series as "The Underwater World of Jacques Cousteau" came as easily as love at first sight. "When you dive, you begin to feel that you're an angel," he explained in a recent interview. "It's a liberation of your weight." Thanks to Cousteau, even diehard landlubbers could float, if only briefly, like angels...
...energy commissiona in 1989, before the state law requiring a 15% set-aside for minority contractors took effect. Connerly only disclosed his race when required. "I felt that it could be damaging to my business to become identified as a minority firm," he says. "You get pigeonholed, and people begin to think that you only got the business because you are a minority...
...heat with a quick plunge into the Wolf River, singer Jeff Buckley had every reason to feel buoyed by good fortune. At 30 he was signed to Columbia Records--the home of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis--and had just settled into a cozy old house in town to begin recording a follow-up to Grace, his powerful 1994 debut. That album, a darkly romantic and stunningly original blend of folk, blues and alternative rock, had earned Buckley a reputation as a superstar in the making, much as Greetings from Asbury Park did for Bruce Springsteen in 1973. Buckley...