Word: chart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the future, the only people there to help guide you just got off the shuttle from Manhattan. Like the proverbial shysters at the rich widow's house, they are here to ease your pain. At Harvard and at many other top schools across America, it's hard to chart any other course. But for the country and for the consultants themselves, it's a miserable business...
...flight, his long arms flinging one transparency after another onto the overhead projector to show figures from the latest European Union study on global competitiveness. "Pitiful," he snaps at one slide on Europe's low investment in Southeast Asia. "We are clearly losing ground," he says, slapping down a chart on the dwindling European share of world trade. When he finishes his downbeat presentation at the E.U. headquarters in Brussels, a reporter asks if he has any fresh proposals to solve the problems. "We don't need any more bright ideas. There are lots of them around," he replies...
...group has its sights set on America. Spice will be released in the States on Feb. 4, and a shamelessly bouncy first single, Wannabe, has already debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard chart, tying a record set by Alanis Morissette for the highest debut ever for a single by a new act, and is climbing rapidly. The group's relentless musical onslaught resembles the onrush of the half-humanoid, half-machine Borg in Star Trek. The Spice Girls, with their mix of semifeminist values (motto: "Girl Power!") and robotic dance beats, keep pushing forward, demanding that listeners love them...
...written by a local musician for the Bob Dylan song Knockin' on Heaven's Door. With Dylan's blessing, some of the Dunblane children, including the siblings of four of the victims, recorded the song, which sold 189,000 copies within a week and entered the British pop singles' chart at No. 1. "Lord, these guns have caused too much pain/ This town will never be the same," ran the new words. "So for the bairns [children] of Dunblane/ We ask, please never again." Profits will go to three children's charities...
...internationally best-selling wishy-washy pop singer. The Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees also scored a breakthrough this year with their sophomore album, The Score, which has sold more than 5 million copies so far (their debut sold only 130,000). A look at any recent Billboard chart shows that hard-core rap continues to be a best-selling genre. And the Smashing Pumpkins' double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which has sold more than 7 million copies so far, demonstrates that when a band does take chances and makes great music, the alternative-rock genre...