Word: downs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, though that could deter or foil terrorists who may have been planning to strike as the ball drops, it doesn't stop them from striking a mile or two down the road or in the same place on the following weekend. Thus the handicapping of the war on terrorism...
So last week the business world was shocked when Ivester announced he would retire next April to make way for "fresh leadership," putting an end to a tenure that was as extraordinarily rocky as it was brief. The Georgia native insistently echoed company statements that stepping down at age 52...
VENTURE OUT Sick of reading about venture capitalists making a mint by investing in dotcoms before they go public? Well, thanks to a newfangled mutual fund announced last week, you can plant seed capital. To be eligible for the fund, which VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson will roll out next year...
DUST BUSTER Why hire a housekeeper when technology can do the dirty work for you? Dyson's DC06 robotic vacuum cleaner, unveiled last week and due out in May, uses three onboard computers and 50 sensors to navigate its way around your plants, pets and furniture--all without tumbling down...
"The result shows how easy it is under the aegis of democratic institutions in Russia to create a top-down pro-Kremlin party from scratch and then, with huge infusions of cash and a stunningly popular patriotic war in Chechnya, build it into a front-runner," says TIME Moscow correspondent...