Word: dikes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million during the critical Christmas fourth quarter, while IBM was showing a 41 percent profit for the same period, that caused its stock to drop 10 percent. "Apple Chief Executive Michael Spindler is going to look more and more like the little boy with the finger in the dike if he tries to stop a merger or takeover," says TIME's David Jackson. "Despite Markkula's denial, Apple must take drastic measures to survive. The smaller Apple's market share gets, and it's now at about 10 percent, the less appeal it has to software developers." As a result...
...College Democrats plan to go up to New Hampshire to canvas for the President's renomination. Hopefully, when they stand in the doorway of New Hampshire voters they will offer a more compelling reason to vote for Bill Clinton than the fact that he has his finger in the dike holding back the Republican flood. History has shown that elections are won by the party that shapes the intellectual debate. But Harvard Democrats have been AWOL from any real campus discussion of issues and ideas...
...Dutch should know by now that we cannot pull our finger out of the fragile dike holding back the floods of fascism. They were neutral toward Hitler in the 1930s and said World War II wasn't their war either. That is, until they were overrun by the blitzkrieg and had to be saved by American and British forces. We must never forget...
...part, Kiet keeps enormous--some analysts say excessive--control over Vietnam's day-to-day affairs. Rather than focus on national policy, he often finds himself bogged down in local political issues. When a scandal erupted earlier this year over the illegal construction of homes on the crucial dike system protecting Hanoi from the Red River, Kiet had to step in and resolve it. "That's still better than the old days," says a Hanoi bureaucrat. "Then, if you were dying and needed a blood transfusion, you'd have to get Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to sign off." Vietnam...
...Massink sports center, a sports club where 350 evacuees had bedded down on the gymnasium floor, factory worker Jan Hooyman, 40, explained the danger sign. ``When clear water appears at our doorstep, that's O.K.,'' he said. ``But when we see brown water, we know that's the dike giving...