Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other things, helicopter parts and lightning-ground cables for NASA. In 1988, buoyed by government 8(a) support and solid relationships with the U.S. Navy and Air Force, the company was ranked among the top 100 black industrial and service companies by Black Enterprise. But the end of the cold war exposed Bar-Pat's overreliance on Pentagon orders. "After the Wall came down, they began canceling contracts for the military, and when we went looking for commercial contracts, it was all in the Pacific Rim, and we went out of business," Bellinger says...
...alone, of course. The fiery economy (and concomitant soaring tax revenues) helped most. But Williams brought accountability to a city where tax officials had literally left returns strewn across the basement of a city building. Under Williams, vendors got paid. Tax refunds got issued on time. The morgue got cold again. Residents in both white and black Washington began to thank him for little things like timely trash collection, even when he alone wasn't responsible...
...strength to break the money links between inefficient industries and the ruling party. Party politics and bureaucratic inertia ground down the reformist plans of the last Prime Minister, and he has been replaced by a cookie-cutter party man with what a Tokyo commentator called "all the pizazz of cold pizza...
...knows why these cycles occur. According to Bill Gray, a hurricane expert from Colorado State University, one reason may be a phenomenon known as the "Atlantic conveyor." The subject of much recent research, the conveyor is a gigantic oceanic flywheel that transports cold water from the seas off Iceland and Greenland in a majestic, slow current along the bottom of the ocean to Antarctica, where it surfaces several decades later and flows back north, absorbing heat as it passes the equator. The conveyor seems to have kicked into a faster gear lately, bringing warm equatorial water north before...
...around her. The Farming of Bones recounts tales of horror, but it never turns purple, never spins wildly into the fantastic, always remains focused, with precise, disciplined language, and in doing so, it uncovers moments of raw humanness. This is a book that, confronted with corpses, has the cold-eyed courage to find a smile...