Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some executives insist that the war is not a serious business concern for them since their major fear -- that hostilities would multiply the price of oil -- proved unfounded. "We've never felt that war was as important as the Fed or financial markets," says Jerry Jasinowski, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. But the attitudes of individual buyers determine the shape of America's consumer economy, and they still seem tied to the war's progress. Darryl Hartley-Leonard, president of Hyatt Hotels, figures that "if the war were to end in April, there would be such euphoria that...
...simply headed north. He got lost several times on the poorly marked roads but eventually hooked up with U.S. troops, who complained to him about everything from inadequate supplies to late paychecks. Nolte duly sent the news home. "If you sit around waiting for the scraps to be fed to you," he says, "you're going to get the kind of things a dog gets: leftovers...
...Messmore sisters, freshman Beth and junior Lauren, combined for the Crimson's fifth goal. Beth collected the puck from behind the Yale net and fed a perfect centering pass to her sister. Lauren cleanly whacked the puck home and gave the Crimson a 5-0 lead heading into the second intermission...
...fundamental scientific concept underlying the research is wonderously simple: tumors cannot grow unless they are well-fed with blood. In most cases, a normal cell which has somehow turned cancerous can multiply and divide about a million times before it "suffocates," unable to survive on the nutrients supplied to the original cell...
After working for years on finding such a drug, Ingber had uncovered a mother lode--but there was a catch. Fed to rats, large enough doses of fumagillin proved capable of suppressing tumors, but at the same time also caused severe weight loss...