Word: consultation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says, "When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art." Perhaps that is why she can't help kidding ballet conventions. In her pas de deux the couple occasionally run out of steam or have to consult each other before hurling themselves into yet more flashy fouettes...
...professional timekeepers of the world determine, to the precise nanosecond, when a new year begins? They simply consult an atomic clock. And last week, just in time to ring in the new, the Hewlett-Packard Co., of Palo Alto, Calif., unveiled the latest in these meticulous timepieces. Twice as accurate as earlier models, the $54,000 device -- the size of a desktop computer -- will remain reliable to the second for the next 1.6 million years, a period far longer than modern humans have existed...
...Michael Milken. The Big Board's $ rebuke prohibits Joseph from acting as a manager or supervisor at its member firms and bars him from owning a controlling interest in those companies. The penalty won't force Joseph to earn his living by the forge. He'll be allowed to consult Drexel in its litigation against Milken and others. Joseph's salary...
President Bush promised to consult with other world leaders to map out a way. French President Francois Mitterrand hinted that this time Paris might join -- even though France only last month proposed that the European Community lift existing economic sanctions against Libya. An embarrassingly few days later, a French examining magistrate accused four other Libyans, including Gaddafi's brother-in-law Abdallah Senoussi, of bombing a French DC- 10 jet that exploded over Africa nine months after the Lockerbie tragedy (death toll: 171). French intelligence suspects that both bombings were planned at the same meeting in Tripoli...
...whether America still works, then ask whether California still works. Does the reckless American hospitality to immigrants still accomplish its transformations and synergies? Can America still absorb so many disparate values and traditions and form them into a successful society? Or will the nation vanish into an incoherent future? Consult California...