Word: dipping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story is the merest excuse for a rhapsody of textures: of the carpets, the wheat fields, the clouds, the streams in which the peasants dip their dyes. Color is almost a religion here. A charismatic teacher points out a classroom window to "the red of a poppy, the blue of God's heaven, the yellow of the sun that lights up the world," and these colors magically appear on his hands, as if he'd dipped them in a world still damp from Nature's first spectacular paint job. "Life is color!" he shouts, as exuberant as an Iranian Zorba...
...main challenger in the database business, Informix. The Menlo Park, Calif., company blindsided Oracle with a series of hip-sounding, well-marketed database programs it claimed were faster and better at scrounging through terrabytes of data--the grunt work where databases make their fortunes. Oracle stock took a quick dip, but Ellison's slash-and-burn sales force and espresso-fueled programmers quickly unplugged the challenge. "Informix did tons of things wrong," says Ellison. "They started writing checks instead of software." Last week Informix announced a $140 million quarterly loss and the ritual sacrifice of its cfo, who resigned...
...then Signet called in the loan. At first Barbour refused to pay the $1 million balance due. When the Youngs' lawyers threatened a lawsuit, the forum paid up $500,000, but that still left an angry Young with a $500,000 loss--sparing the R.N.C. from having to dip into campaign finds to pay off the rest of the debt...
...Maine, a maker of toothpaste and other personal-care products. Ben & Jerry's gives away a stunning 7.5% of its pretax profits and goes to great lengths to buy from minority or disadvantaged suppliers. (The company's earnings fell last year as sales of superpremium ice cream dipped; for the recent first quarter, Ben & Jerry's reported a $1.06 million loss.) Detractors call such contracts posturing and note that Ben & Jerry's has been fighting a lawsuit by a minority supplier that claims to have been dumped. Still, Ben & Jerry's--which sets forth its philosophy in a newly published...
...York mountain, about 20 miles southwest of Vail. The mystery of why Button left the Arizona-bound flight path of his three-plane team has raised speculation that he might have purposely broken away. There have been several incidents of military air tragedies that occurred when pilots wanted to dip their wings over their girlfriend's house or put on an air show for one of the pilots' parents, notes TIME's Mark Thompson. "But in the military, you don't go off course to do that. Button's team was supposed to go to Arizona. And Button went...