Word: de
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take these incidents and infer the existence of broader campus sentiment is foolish. It only proves that, once again, democratic intellectuals love abstractions and generalities, just like Alexis de Tocqueville said they would over a hundred years ago in Democracy in America...
Will the bug industry succeed? Last month the American Stock Exchange let investors hedge their hunches. It began trading futures options based on the 18-stock De Jager Year 2000 Index, made up of companies such as giant Dun & Bradstreet and smaller outfits like Data Dimensions and Viasoft that are racing to devise solutions. The options represent bundles of stocks in the index, named after the computer consulting firm De Jager & Co., which took a lead in addressing the 2000 issue. If these companies can't find a solution before the millennium, a new breed of speculators--call them bugbears...
...neither the French business community nor the fashion flock sees this pope as infallible. Arnault's American-style takeover battles have rankled France's conservative business cardinals. And his appointment of Brits to run Dior and Givenchy--not to mention his sacking of the revered Hubert de Givenchy, the man who immortalized Audrey Hepburn--shocked the French, who, with some justification, see their nation's fashion sense as chic in a way that cannot be duplicated by a couple of rostbifs...
...Dallas Cowboys: Kenny Holmes, DE, Miami (Fla.). Inconsistent but very quick and fluid. He might be the answer now that selfish borderline-psycho Charles Haley's back has finally called it quits...
...Denver Broncos: Trevor Pryce, DE, Clemson. He's very big at 6'5", 280. He's risk because of inconsistency, but can be dominating...