Word: flags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foolish and exposed out, standing on the corner of a busy intersection, the cars whooshing by, the pedestrians pushing past to cross the street. Though I had watched ample television and been to enough cities to see it done; It didn't seem natural to me to flag down a taxi...
...Hyannis Port the next day and began the vigil. On Sunday, Coast Guard Rear Admiral Richard Larrabee switched to a search-and-recovery effort. This put an end to the hope that anyone would be found alive. Ted issued a statement of the family's "unspeakable grief," lowered the flag to half-staff and then went to the side of the person he knew would be suffering most...
...early '80s, the mass market Jobs was aiming for didn't yet exist--at least not at the prices he was charging. Since then, the operating-system wars--and years of bumbling management--have taken their toll on the company. By the time Microsoft's Windows captured the OS flag, the software community had largely stopped writing programs for the Mac--a leading indicator of Apple's long, slow and very painful decline...
...netted an estimated $200,000 after a swing through Alabama Wednesday. But the mayor?s aides may have taken the theatrics a little far for some New Yorkers. Giuliani?s somewhat rocky record as a racial healer was unlikely to be enhanced Tuesday by the spectacle of the Arkansas flag ?- with its strong Confederate imagery ?- being raised over City Hall in downtown Manhattan...
...FLAG The SEC is looking into mutual-fund ads featuring odd one-year periods--ending April 13 or May 3, for example--that allow them to show an amazing performance by capturing high points and leaving out subsequent declines. The review is being driven by the performance of Internet stocks such as Yahoo and America Online, whose gyrations can make some fund managers look like a genius on Monday and stupid by Friday. Don't wait for the Fed to help. Check out the ads carefully...