Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to find a job that isn't there. The University of Chicago Graduate Business School lets students bid for interviews through a computer, but according to William Mankivsky, 26, the screen has little to offer. Says he: "Every time we'd go to sign on, it would flash that another company had canceled some or all of its interviews due to restructuring or cutbacks...
...part time until he was 32, and he has tried hard to make up for lost time. As an insurance entrepreneur he disdained the slow, steady process of writing policies and building reserves through careful investments to cover eventual payouts. Instead he built the company with sizzle and flash, turning in the 1980s to the high- yield junk bonds sold by Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken. Of Executive Life's $10.1 billion in assets, $6.4 billion is junk. Says Henri Bersoux, a spokesman for the American Council of Life Insurance: "No other company of that size or larger has invested...
...FLASH FORWARD to the end of 1989. The house masters met with Jewett to ask him to consider placing transfer students in the houses and housing the subsequent overflow in DeWolfe. FAS, until then a major player in deciding DeWolfe's fate, was not involved. The decision rested with Jewett, and Jewett alone...
...most places, torrential downpours, tornadoes, flash floods and mudslides would be about as welcome as the bubonic plague. In drought-parched California, however, such freakish weather has been greeted with jubilation. So far, what some residents are calling the "Miracle March" has brought three weeks of rain and almost doubled the state's normal monthly precipitation levels. The watery largesse resulted when a high-pressure system moved off the Pacific Coast, unleashing the storms that have drenched the state...
...heart drug hit the market in 1987 in a blinding flash of pitchmen, promotion and public relations hoo-ha. The product of biotech breakthroughs, TPA was touted as clearly superior to the competition, a clot-busting drug called streptokinase, on the market for 15 years. Though TPA (for tissue plasminogen activator) is 10 times as expensive as the older drug, the majority of U.S. doctors bought the pitch, and the new drug became the favored method of breaking up clots in heart-attack victims. Then last week an international team of researchers reported what some doctors had suspected all along...