Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distant cities became linked through commerce (much of it orchestrated by written contract), culture acquired a kind of disaster insurance. Any valuable meme--the concept of the chariot or of coins--would spread so fast from city to city that it could survive any catastrophes that afflicted its birthplace. The world's data-processing system was getting better at making backup copies...
This totemic reduction of nature--the streamlining of a bird's body, the swish of its flight--was a prediction of the technological world to come in the second half of the century. RUNNERS-UP Guitar by Pablo Picasso; The Chariot by Alberto Giacometti...
Three months after admitting they have a serious customer-satisfaction problem ? and assuring Congress they could solve it on their own ?- the nation?s major airlines finally unveiled their self-imposed makeover on Wednesday. United Airlines will wheel out "Mobile Chariot" workstations during flight delays to help stranded passengers with rebooking, and will deploy 600 hand-held baggage scanners at its busiest airports to help find rerouted luggage. Continental promises a top-to-bottom "Customer First" program aimed at improving its communication with passengers. And that?s just to name a couple ?- the Air Transport Association, the airlines' umbrella group...
...native Floridian from Sarasota, and Sanchez, 30, who hails from Maryland and attended Montgomery College there, met in 1990 while film students at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. A few years ago, Myrick says, "we got on the subject of old documentaries like In Search Of... and Chariot of the Gods and a 1972 feature called The Legend of Boggy Creek--all these pseudodocumentary programs that really creeped us out when we were kids. Later on, we came up with the premise of the three filmmakers' getting lost in the woods. Our movie would be about the found...
...beat up or buy up competitors. But then they took the club away before we could start swinging. We were looking brash and predator-like--top of the food chain. Now we feel like timid prey. A chart of our stock looks like one half of the Apollo's Chariot ride at Busch Gardens--the first part, which starts at the top. It's been a dizzying decline...