Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other leading indicators are pointing briskly upward. Orders from American factories rose 1.2% in July, the strongest performance since November. As investors around the globe sought a safe haven for their capital, long-term interest rates continued their slide to 5.3%, a silver lining for the U.S. in the cloud over emerging markets. Those low rates in turn have boosted the used-housing market, which recorded an all-time high of houses sold in July. Housing values, another important factor in Americans' calculation of their wealth, are rising smartly at about 5% a year. Unemployment stands at 4.5%, nearly...
...John Cloud. Reported by Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...during the Korean War. A World War II veteran and a longtime combat aviator, Glenn had been assigned to fly F9F Panther jets in an attack squadron running raids out of Pohang. During one especially hellish run, Glenn encountered an unexpectedly heavy barrage of antiaircraft fire. A cloud of shrapnel ripped one bomb from the undercarriage of his Panther, then another. A second blast punched more than 200 holes in the skin of his plane. Glenn struggled for a few moments to keep his wounded aircraft stable and then realized the effort was futile. Keying open his microphone, he called...
...weeks ago, France was riding high on the strength of its surprise win over Brazil in the World Cup. Then came the Tour de France--or, as some bicycling fans are calling it, the Tour des Drugs--which limped to a finish last week under a deepening cloud. Five cyclists and team officials have been placed under formal investigation for using or helping riders to use artificial substances to boost their performance. As the police widened their probe, a Dutch team and all four Spanish teams indignantly quit the race, and the remaining riders staged two unsportsmanlike slowdowns in protest...
...their usual high jinks, but they were usurped in wackiness by even newer kids with scissors--Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, middle right. The Dutch duo, whose label is known as Viktor & Rolf, got to thinking about the millennium and showed an apocalyptic-appropriate silhouette shaped like a mushroom cloud. Moreover, they put the show together on a shoestring budget--so '90s! There were a few sublime moments, however, such as the Jean-Louis Scherrer cape, near left, and the appearance in Thierry Mugler's show of CYD CHARISSE, all 77 years of her, looking as va-va-voom...