Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...draining expense of things like child care. O.K. No sad violins for onetime yuppies now pulling down $100,000 a year. Things aren't so bad for them. But that income isn't exactly the stuff of winters in Bimini. And the new tax bill deals this bunch...
...unusual theology to explain. But the benefit, notes Stark, is that "people at the top of the Mormon church have immense experience in the world. These guys have been around the track. Why do they choose to invest directly? Because they are not helpless. They are a bunch of hard-nosed businessmen." Rodney Brady, who runs Deseret Management Corp., has a Harvard business doctorate, served as executive vice president of pharmaceutical giant Bergen Brunswig and from 1970 to '72 was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Similar figures fill the church's upper management: Tony...
...Fifteen million copies sold. Next came Jewel. More than 70 weeks on the Billboard charts and still going. And McLachlan's own album Fumbling ended up going double platinum. Says Atlantic Records co-chairman Val Azzoli: "Honestly, we in the record business are not leaders. We are a bunch of sheep. When one kind of record does well, we all follow with more like...
...NASA's early interplanetary spacecraft--the Vikings, the Pioneers, the Voyagers--were limousine ships packed with dozens of scientific instruments and countless backup systems. On the surface, of course, this made sense. "If you've never been to Jupiter or Saturn before," says Golombek, "you want a whole bunch of instruments to cover the sphere of what you want to know...
...postcard place these days to feel agreeable about the world as you find it. In a TIME/CNN survey of graduating seniors in 13 high schools along Highway 50, very few of them sounded like Marilyn Manson (rock bogeyman). A few of them sounded like the Brady Bunch (holy innocents). A lot of them reminded us of Lisa Simpson (cartoon goddess--aware of life's shadows, inclined to make for the light). Three-fourths hold the sobering belief that we are pulling apart as a nation rather than coming together. But 81% said this is a good time to be starting...