Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes the bad news. Some $10 trillion (yes, $10,000,000,000,000) in derivative contracts are set to mature this year for U.S. bankers, and the U.S. bankers are holding their collective breath to see which of their Asian clients will pay up. Many won't. "Those who believe there won't be any further derivative losses from Asia couldn't be more mistaken," says Edward Furash, a bank consultant based in Washington...
...been 40 more years. In writing the cover, Gorman says she tried "to step back, take a deep breath and be really clear about what has and hasn't happened." Both aspects are amazing...
...impact on the commercial launch date" for the top operating system upgrade, still set for June 25. What Reno et al would like before then is an agreement to let manufacturers remove the Internet Explorer icon, among others, from the Win 98 desktop. She shouldn't hold her breath. Given Microsoft's penchant for brinksmanship, that could take some time...
...Cheerily titled Escape to Hell and Other Stories, Gaddafi's book mostly covers things that chafe him, including football, rock music and especially cities: "Flee from the lethargy and waste, the poison and boredom and yawning. Flee from the nightmare city," he writes. People, also, are a problem: "Your breath chases me like a rabid dog, its saliva dripping in the street of your modern city of insanity." Movie rights, apparently, are still available...
...like to study in the lobby in the Carpenter Center," said S. Andrew Martin '98. "The building has a far different energy...it's a definite breath of fresh...