Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telephone lines all over Beirut suddenly and mysteriously went dead. The glitch was probably caused by the city's notoriously fickle communication lines. But in retrospect, it seemed more like a sign that trouble was in the air. Literally in the air, it turned out: just off the coast, four Israeli helicopter gunships were loosing laser-homing Hellfire missiles and delivering Israel's first attack on Beirut in 14 years...
...author of a 1995 biography of Schliemann. The man was also a war profiteer, a dabbler in black markets and a smuggler, whose wheelings and dealings have three nations squabbling more than a century after his death. Schliemann did eventually find the lost city of Troy, near the Turkish coast, but he dug right through the layers corresponding to the Homeric period and largely destroyed them. The Troy he found was at least a thousand years older than he believed...
...increased cost controls in that market and to real intense competition," says Jonathan Weiner, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. "In many ways, even those not enrolled in U.S. Healthcare benefited in some degree." For the company, which has been an East Coast powerhouse among health-maintenance organizations, the merger offers ready access to all 50 states...
...Montanan, that is. Since moving here from the temperate East Coast, I've grown accustomed to the state's extremes--of topography, of climate, of behavior--and even somewhat proud of them. When the highway speed limit was removed last winter (not increased, removed), I cheered. When wolf packs were reintroduced into Yellowstone, I felt a wild thrill. And though the tourist board will tell you otherwise, there are indeed a lot of weirdos here: outcasts and outsiders of every stripe, a lot of them refugees from milder climes where their eccentricities drew stares (Ted Turner and Jane Fonda have...
...bitterest network feuds of recent years. According to reports in the New York Post and New York magazine, McDermott--who had a role in developing such hit shows as Friends--sought to get out of her NBC contract by charging sexual harassment against the network's top West Coast executive, Don Ohlmeyer. McDermott's charges have been seen by some as a cynical ploy to free her for the ABC job. Insiders say Jack Welch, chairman of NBC's parent, General Electric, even contacted Eisner personally to complain about ABC's role in the episode...