Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brave new world of deregulation, airlines have foundered from a deadly mix of overexpansion and downward pressure on fares. Then there is Midwest Express Airlines, an upstart based in Milwaukee, Wis., that pampers customers with wide leather seats, free champagne and provisions that arrive on china--and thus far has a habit of pulling premium fares from passengers' pockets...
...Bell's muscle made it possible for others to build competing services. But it left some 3 million AT&T shareholders vulnerable. Suddenly gone was a quintessential widow's and orphan's stock. In its place was a smattering of shares of eight different companies, all entering a brave new telecom world that promised upheaval and risk, not safety. The bust-up, though, has proved a resounding success for investors who simply did nothing. One hundred shares of AT&T the day before the court-ordered break-up was worth $6,052. Anyone who held on to those shares, along...
...first-time movie director JOHNNY DEPP, pride of auteurship beats a glowing review any day. "Regardless of what people think of the movie, it's my film," said the director of The Brave. At his Cannes Film Festival press screening, Depp experienced a noble tradition of the 50-year-old festival: booing at the end of a crummy picture. During his spell in Cannes, Depp toted around the Hollywood Reporter, which roundly panned his work. Marlon Brando co-stars with Depp in the grim tale of a poor Native American who agrees to be in a snuff film to earn...
Harman's thesis "is based upon some very brave and insightful field research conducted under very challenging circumstances to say the least," Matory said. "Both the Committee on African Studies, generally, which funded her field research, and I, personally, feared for her safety because...there is a war of secession going on in Niger...
...efforts to maintain the "Southern feminine" charm of her youth seems almost gratingly ridiculous--but that is, after all, the point; Amanda's ridiculousness makes her as much a pathetic figure as a comic one. She is moreover, in her own narrow-minded way, a fighter who puts a brave if silly face on things and who stubbornly refuses to admit defeat--which makes the cruelty of her final breakdown, powerfully portrayed by Barker, all the more painful...