Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study published in the journal Nature announced some bad news: The corn produces a wind-borne pollen that can kill monarch butterflies if they ingest it. As for the future of genetically engineered crops, the finding has raised concern, but scientists are not yet ready to sound the alarm bell full blast...
...subscriber. That was in addition to the $1.5 billion breakup fee Comcast collected to walk away from the deal. (Comcast's strengthened position may come in handy later as Exhibit A when AT&T has to prove to regulators that it has not rebuilt the old Ma Bell monopoly.) AT&T sold to Microsoft--a company whose Internet strategy is looking increasingly piecemeal--$5 billion of preferred stock and an opportunity to supply some of the operating systems and software for the set-top boxes and servers that AT&T will have to deploy to support its vast new digital...
...truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never hit the ground..." On this fine recitation goes, by sheer loopy eloquence getting a couple of beat-up bull riders from rodeo to rodeo in their falling-apart pickup, ending with, "...turning into midnight motel entrances with RING OFFICE BELL signs or steering onto the black prairie for a stunned hour of sleep." That's in a story called The Mud Below, and it just about nails pickup trucks and rodeo soldiers...
AFTER HOURS Talk about bad market timing. Just as SEC chairman Arthur Levitt was warning last week about the dangers of online trading, Instinet--the network that lets brokerages and mutual funds trade stocks after the closing bell--said it would soon afford retail investors the same privilege. Before long, sleep-deprived traders in their pajamas should be clicking trades through cyberspace all night long, potentially saving money by having their trades executed faster. Retail investors will still route their trades to Instinet through brokers--online and otherwise--but they'll be able to react to late-breaking news. Both...
Alan Greenspan is hard enough to understand after he speaks; no wonder that on a Monday sandwiched between an inflation scare and a Fed meeting, the markets were a little queasy. The Dow began slipping steadily at the opening bell, before coming back to a 60-point loss by the close, a middling sell-off predicated on something like general unease. "It's really just uncertainty," says TIME senior economics correspondent Bernard Baumohl. "People are thinking about inflation again, and bond yields are very high -? which makes them suddenly look like a reasonable alternative to stocks if the Fed does...