Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brooks' personal battles and consequent cry of self-acceptance parallel the sentiments of other female artists. Sarah McLachlan contemplates "Building a Mystery" in her graceful, soothing voice. Although she was not top on my list, a few close peers were obsessed and I enjoyed by default. Jewel mourns life problems on all her songs-whiny but memorable. Despite not being my favorite genre, the summer wouldn't have been complete without this female musical scene...
...cities have been more buffeted by economic forces than Cleveland, whose hard times once earned it the nickname "the Mistake by the Lake." Cleveland has lost more than 400,000 people, almost 45% of its population, since mid-century, and in 1978 it became the first major city to default on its debts since the Great Depression. Along the way, city government all but stopped providing basic services. Building on improvements made by his predecessors in city hall, White has helped reverse Cleveland's slide. The hard-driving mayor, who gets to city hall before 7:30 a.m. and sometimes...
...time is now; the turf is the Web; and the enemy is Netscape, whose browser market share still dwarfs Microsoft's. The Apple deal makes Microsoft's Internet Explorer the default browser for all future Macs, yet another coup for Gates, who is painfully aware what a threat the Web poses to the OS standards whose implacable rigidity led to Microsoft's rise in the first place. Gates spent the Web's first two years pretending it didn't matter and the next two frantically refocusing his company on the Net and snapping up anything that might further that goal...
...voters' rejection of Chirac suggests that the French may have some congenital inability to face the competitive realities of the modern world. Most French analysts, however, put the blame on a failure of leadership. "Yes, the French have clung to an old social model, but by default," says economist Albert Bressand. "No other policy was articulated to them. The French are slow to modernize because of inappropriate leadership left and right...
...tournament seeded the Red Raiders fifth by default more than anything--putting them lower would be unfair, as it would place them behind a team that finished third in its division; but putting them higher was unwarranted...