Word: dices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time or another most high schools in America mount a production of Guys and Dolls. This is not surprising: it's a solid performance piece with a clever story, jazzy songs and nothing too controversial or risque, unless your town is likely to be offended by dice games and chaste kisses. It's also weathered the years far better than most other golden age American musicals, with much more grit and character than, say, Oklahoma or South Pacific, which can really test the patience of even the most adoring parents. Plus, high school kids can be cute when wearing loud...
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...primary business is selling a decidedly low-tech commodity: books. Daily, it must stare down a Goliath competitor that has more stores than it has employees. Last quarter it lost nearly $25 million. Now it's rolling the dice and expanding. Would you invest in this company...
...cell phone just slightly larger than the one you carry now? How much of a premium would you be willing to pay for such convenience? Two American-based firms with a list of global backers that reads like a high-tech Who's Who are rolling the dice in a multibillion-dollar gamble that they can answer those questions. In their effort to find that new plateau in communications, however, they're off to a rocky start...
...Sprint, plus Germany's Veba AG and Russia's Krunichev State Research Production Space Center. The joint venture was supposed to go live on Sept. 23, but then software glitches led officials to disclose that they will delay until Nov. 1 what amounts to the final roll of the dice in its $5 billion gamble to revolutionize telecommunications--or become the best-publicized flop in history. The announcement nudged its stock price on the NASDAQ exchange down to the mid-30s in mid-September, from a stratospheric high of $72 a share in May. The firm also revealed that...