Word: expression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smile. Opium is the curse of the House of Pang. Those who surrender to it will corrupt the children of the palace, Ruyi (Gong Li) and Zhong-liang (Cheung), creating a new generation of addicts. As grownups, these adult children will stare into the camera, their only confidant, to express their impotent rage; and their faces will be streaked with tears as chic as pearl drops...
...Lately the fresh-cookie airline has pitched itself to pleasure travelers--though there are limits on how much it can push the price in that segment. Says Wally Durso, president of Travel Dynamics of Brookfield, Wis., a Milwaukee suburb: "I don't believe fares are No. 1. If Midwest Express is within $50 of a competing airline, a lot of my clients will go with Midwest Express...
...Roderick Bell, an Ohio state dropout turned businessman, bought two trucks as a tax write-off. Today Bell's firm, Texas American Express, shelters mainly profit. Sales are heading toward $12 million, and 80 freight trucks--whose colors range from salmon to emerald green to pink because employees can pick the shades they please--ply the roads from its modest base in Dallas to the Northeast and the West Coast. Bell is a success--and he has to work harder than ever to stay that...
...sort packets of information as they fly through the ether, are the guts of the Net. If you send E-mail from Tokyo to Buenos Aires, odds are it will pass a Cisco router. With close to 70% market share, Cisco owns the horses of the fastest-growing Pony Express in history...
...while, worked in a Tucson feed store for another while, then gravitated back to quarter horses as a trainer. He found his calling, or so he thought, putting together a successful string at Los Alamitos in Orange County, Calif., and training the 1986 world champion, Gold Coast Express. But, as Baffert recalls, "one day I came home to our little house with a tiny backyard, and my wife started telling me about a feature she had just seen on TV about Wayne Lukas, who went from training quarter horses to Thoroughbreds and had this magnificent spread...