Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whittle first gained national attention in the early '80s as co-owner and rescuer of the financially ailing Esquire magazine. After selling out to partner Philip Moffitt, Whittle used the proceeds to expand a mini-empire of magazines aimed at such specialized audiences as teenage girls and travel agents. The profitability of these ventures, as well as Whittle's innovative plans for moving into electronic media, enticed outside investors, including Time Warner, which now owns 33% of Whittle Communications. From 1987 through 1992, the company's revenues rose from $82 million to $213 million. The growth was due largely...
...hopes of putting pressure on the Serbs, the contact group had floated hints of the punishment they would inflict on the naysayers. First, they warned, they could tighten economic sanctions on Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs' backers and suppliers. Second, they might expand and police the security zones around six mostly Muslim areas. Finally, as a last resort, the Bosnian government might be exempted from the international arms embargo that affects all of the former Yugoslavia but hurts the Muslims and Croats most...
...Baltic success, Clinton announced a U.S. fund that would invest in the small but growing economies. He made another crowd-pleasing promise to put up much of the funds needed to move out the lingering Russian troops. In Poland, he promised that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would expand to include Warsaw -- and, of course, the other former Warsaw-pact countries. So what did Clinton get in return for all theAmerican largess? At least one gift, a saxophone from Poland's Lech Walesa.parpar
...sexual activity for six to eight days before a game. Defenders and goalies, who require less physical energy on the playing field, need only curtail bedroom sports three to five days before the kickoff. Alexander Olshanyetsky and Mordechai Halperin of the Jerusalem Center for Impotence and Infertility plan to expand their research to include more players and other sports. But no telling when they will turn to the question on the minds of players' wives: What is the optimum period of abstinence from football for peak sexual performance...
President Clinton redeemed one of his big 1992 campaign pledges by formally unveiling his $9.3 billion welfare-reform plan. Its central features would expand job training for recipients and require those born after 1971 to join a work program after two years or risk losing benefits. Chances of passage this year: virtually nil in a Congress already clogged with health reform...