Word: central
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money-management concern, Caisse des Depots et Consignations, strongly disagrees. His scenario: the countries of "Euroland," as the 11-nation currency bloc is being called, will focus more than ever on pumping up their domestic economies, which are suffering from slow growth and high unemployment. Though the new European Central Bank will officially be independent of any national government, political leaders of the 11 countries will be pressing the bank to lower interest rates and keep them down, in coordination with the U.S. Federal Reserve. (Early in the month, all 11 countries, for the first time, cut interest rates simultaneously...
...started working at Southwest Airlines' 24-hour San Antonio, Texas, reservations center, an amphitheater-like building housing 600 agents. First came the headaches--every day, two hours after she arrived at work. She noticed other agents bringing aspirin to work. Anyone who ran out could go down to the central-console area, where supervisors were dispensing aspirin from large bottles. Polansky joined the aspirin poppers...
...team struggling as much as itself. The Mavericks have won just two games this season and have managed to score more than two goals in only three contests. Nebraska-Omaha has a relatively new hockey program, which started just two years ago and is slated to join the Central Collegiate Hockey Association next season...
...Eviction Free Zone, which recently held an affordable housing rally in Central Square, and other community groups still practice grassroots activism, and 17,000 Cambridge residents still cast their ballots for city councillors in last year's election...
...merging companies to the Justice Department for approval, and also said he might allow Microsoft to request additional documents from AOL and Netscape to assist in its defense. "It is a major victory for Microsoft," says TIME technology writer Chris Taylor. "But nothing has changed in the central tenet of the government's case, which is that Microsoft illegally used its operating system to leverage itself into other software markets...