Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...older brother's footsteps: he followed Harold to Cal Tech, and then to Raytheon Corp. in the 1950s, when Ben got his very first job working for his brother, building missiles. Their paths diverged when Ben went East to get an M.B.A. and Harold started building satellites on the Coast. For years they kept up a bicoastal relationship, says Ben, "the way families that live far apart usually see each other, on occasional visits." Now, after 40 years, they see each other all the time. Yet why, after such extraordinary careers, do they need the headache of a high-tech...
...defining nightmare for a gangsta-rap world whose paranoid royalty seem increasingly compelled to live out the grotesque violence that fills its art. Many initially connected the murder to the rapper's vocal participation in an ugly feud between his California record label, Death Row, and its East Coast competitor, Bad Boy. It was Death Row president Marion ("Suge") Knight who was driving his black BMW after the Tyson fight, with Shakur standing up through the sun roof. Four men rolled up in a white Cadillac, fired about 13 rounds, and sped away, losing the police in traffic. Knight told...
...1960s, followed by a period in Singapore, where he teaches English and begins attracting attention as a promising young novelist. Then comes the long sojourn in London, where, as an American expatriate and the happily married father of two sons, he writes novels (The Family Arsenal, The Mosquito Coast) that firm up his reputation and livelihood. A divorce ends this phase and sends him back to the U.S. and into an emotional and creative tailspin...
...expires this Saturday. The U.A.W. always zeroes in on one company in divide-and-conquer fashion, but in a break with four decades of tradition, the union has toned down its normally strident rhetoric and declined to set a strike deadline. Industry watchers expect the U.A.W. and Ford to coast home with a contract next week, which will set the pattern for subsequent talks at Chrysler and General Motors...
...think that if the San Andreas Fault went to the trouble of having a perfectly good earthquake, the folks on the West Coast might at least notice. A new study reveals, however, that in 1992, what should have been a china-smashing 4.8 Richter-scale quake hit central California, and yet nobody felt a thing. The explanation for the odd shadow-quake was published last week in the journal Nature and may help improve science's understanding of earthquakes in general...