Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strength of a 50% rise in Time Warner stock. "Hey, not bad," Turner recalls thinking at the time. "Why not go for the billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane Fonda, over dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria ("She burst into tears" of joy, he says), Turner stunned an audience that included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan by announcing from the podium that over 10 years he will give $1 billion to fund U.N. programs...
...became the head shutterbug at Eastman Kodak four years ago, things instantly looked brighter for Big Yellow, the world's largest photographic filmmaker. Fisher, who dialed up a triumphant turnaround at cellular-phone and microchip giant Motorola, planned to re-vitalize stodgy Kodak (1996 sales: $15.97 billion) with a burst of digital-age products. Instead of bloody downsizings, Fisher would restore Kodak's faded glory through the magic of growth...
...odor of sewage is now almost gone from the halls of Adams House, after crews on Saturday completed the repairs of a waste-water pipe that burst last week...
Condenzio said the pipe probably burst because of its age and because no water had run through it for nearly 10 weeks...
...smell emanating from the burst pipe was noticed by residents on all floors of the Adams B-entryway...