Word: closely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what you need to get re-elected," the leader told one. "That's what I want the most." And Gephardt is working on a strategy in which his own goal is not tied to the outcome of the presidential campaign--putting money and muscle in close races where coattails won't save the Democrat...
...Close behind is a company that never had to worry about eroding its core business or undercutting its work force. ETrade began in 1982 as an online trade service for professionals. In 1996, after current CEO Christos Cotsakos came aboard, the first incarnation of a website that today serves nearly 1.5 million investors was launched. This year, by acquiring several companies, including the largest online bank and a financial-news site, Cotsakos began transforming ETrade from an e-brokerage to an online financial-services supermarket...
...killing two patients. The elderly patients were bedridden and couldn't escape the invaders. But healthy folks who live in infested areas--such as the Southeast and parts of California--are also vulnerable to attacks. If you see the creatures indoors, immediately exterminate them with pesticide before they close...
Businesses are not required to provide pensions, but they are a given in most large companies. Though close to two-thirds of all workers actually do better under a cash-balance plan, 40- to 50-year-olds about to enter their peak earning years can lose up to half of their expected final payout. To drive that point home, some Big Blue employees flew a banner over the Minnesota state fair that read, IBM'S PENSION THEFT COULD HAPPEN...
...Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling up these pages would automatically be shunted to their porn site. Once there, the visitors often could not leave: "mousetrapped," with their computers' "back" and "close" commands disabled. Users were thus caught in what the FTC called "an unavoidable, seemingly endless loop" of pornography. Motive for the scam: to boost the number of visits to the porn site--and thus charge advertisers more...