Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The short-sightedness is amplified by Harvard's disjunct schedule. The exam break that began yesterday creates, in effect, two mini-seasons, in which a single big win seems to make a season, and consecutive losses are a disaster.
The problem for Fox is that viewers haven't been coming for much at all. The fall season was a disaster for the network, which swiftly shelved three of its five new series. Only That '70s Show and Brimstone have a shot at renewal. That dismal record cost entertainment president...
All the while, as the public morality play went on in the Judiciary Committee, the private drama unfolded in hundreds of conversations among moderate Republicans, their party leaders and staff members stranded in the empty halls of the Capitol. Both sides insisted they weren't whipping the vote, but behind...
But Vogel had also got her kids to explore the issue on the Internet. They found the American Anti-Slavery Group and through it the website of a Swiss-based human-rights group, Christian Solidarity International, which specializes in redeeming victims of religious oppression held in bondage. The children learned...
The opportunity was born of a disaster, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. After Exxon agreed to pay a $1 billion settlement, environmentalists had a great idea: Why not have the U.S. and Alaska governments use the funds to buy development rights to some of the 44 million acres of...