Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, the Magic, which sails out of a glistening Art Deco terminal in Port Canaveral on Florida's Atlantic Coast, is all about spending, not saving. It is one of four billion-dollar investments that the company has mapped out. (The others: Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom, a new California park and a bigger Tokyo Disneyland.) Four years in the making and four months late in the sailing--due to shipyard glitches and the Disney perfectionism that drives subcontractors nuts--the Magic is a down payment on Disney's ambition to dominate every form of entertainment. Suave and bustling...
...patterns that favor the formation of Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. The problem is that forecasters at the moment are looking at a mixed picture. While sea-surface temperatures in parts of the tropical Pacific have dropped precipitately, there are still substantial patches of warmth hanging around South America's Pacific coast. Once this warmth dissipates, tropical storms will be able to march across the Atlantic unopposed...
...only when I started reading about hate crimes against Asian Americans, received pretty nasty crank calls and left for the East Coast that my view of my town changed. According to these outside reports, everything I considered "normal" was ignorant, discriminatory and oppressive...
...Three fishing villages on the northwest coast of Papua New Guinea that eked out a living from the sea have been erased by it. When all the bodies are buried and all the missing counted, the 23-foot wall of water that arrived in the night last Friday will likely have claimed some 6,000 lives and stolen nearly a whole generation of children whose small bodies stood no chance against the water's crush...
Granted, she put it all together in the service of buzz, the all-important chatter of readers, especially the ones in the New York-West Coast-Washington circuit. Yet Brown preserved in every issue a large core of thoughtful material. She brought on some conspicuously gifted writers, including David Remnick, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Anthony Lane and Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin). And the photographs that caused so much uproar when she first dropped them in, those big gray boulders of portraiture, hit the pages like dark meteors. Attention must be paid...