Word: elfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CNBC's "Brian Williams" had begun to sound a dirge for Kenneth Starr's case against the President. But by 10:25 p.m., the Lewinsky saga was gone completely. Mere minutes later, Sexgate-dependable CNBC was showing -- oh, the sweet innocence of days past! -- the Keebler Elf waving from the New York Stock Exchange podium to kick off a public offering. Has the world gone...
...ship out more toys, not jobs. I've watched chronic cost cutting hamper production at the likes of Boeing and Union Pacific, and I will not allow our ranks to thin so far that we lose business to Toys "R" Us simply because we don't have the elf-power to stitch up enough Beanie Babies by Christmas...
...lifting of sanctions. Iraq owes Russia an estimated $10 billion in foreign-aid loans--money that can't be paid back so long as Iraqi funds are frozen--and Russian companies have some $20 billion in contracts with Iraq ready to kick in if sanctions are lifted. France's Elf Aquitaine and Total Petroleum companies are negotiating similar deals...
...ripe for some strong market surges. Loretta Morris, manager of the Nicholas-Applegate Worldwide Growth Portfolio, is finding dozens of stocks to her liking, especially among export-driven companies benefiting from weakening currencies. Her favorite countries are Germany, the Netherlands and France. Favorite stocks include the French oil company Elf Aquitaine, Dutch electronics-giant Philips and German carmaker Volkswagen...
...collection's stunning opener, The Wood-Sprite is a tale in whose mere three pages Nabokov concentrates the essence of heartache and playfulness that distinguishes the best of his work. A Russian writer who has fled the terrors of his revolutionary homeland imagines a visit from a forest elf ("hunched, gray, powdered with pollen") who explains why he too had to leave the new Soviet state: "Once, toward evening, I skipped out into a glade, and what do I see? People lying around, some on their backs, some on their bellies. Well, I think, I'll wake them...