Word: franticness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like your nights a little less frantic, make for Gangnam, Seoul's own Beverly Hills, complete with a 24-hour beauty salon, big-brand shopping and wine bars, of which Chez Joey, tel: (82-2) 555 8926, is one of the smartest. Set up by long-haired owner and sommelier Ahn Joon-buem on his return from Paris, it's an oasis for live music, especially cool jazz. Even the barmen will treat you to impromptu licks on the guitar: the waiting staff are professional musicians earning an extra buck...
...Nicole gave me a great pass,” Chu said. “It was a testament to the whole line, the whole team, pounding away—not getting too frantic about not scoring in the first period, but then bearing down when it counted...
...full story of the bailouts is more complicated--and more interesting. To judge their effectiveness, it helps to look at two airlines that received assistance and whose fortunes have dramatically diverged since those frantic days. America West, which was among the nation's most inept airlines, has used its $380 million in federal loans to transform itself into an innovative industry leader. Another inefficient carrier, US Airways, got nearly $1 billion--the government's largest aid package--and stayed inefficient. US Airways is in such poor shape that some analysts expect another bankruptcy. With the government's big-airlines record...
...years ago, the captain announced that smoking was permitted in the last four rows of the plane. Some of the smokers, who had psyched themselves into a few hours without a cigarette, now realized they might light up if only they were in the right seats. A frantic bidding war arose for those seats, stoking a commotion that the captain finally quelled by rescinding his order and declaring this a nonsmoking flight. If Klein had been captain, you could've smoked 'em if you had 'em. He calls the airlines' no-smoking rule "a sign of the dangerous lengths...
Long before the Music Store came on the scene, frantic record-industry executives had been searching for some way to combat their nemesis: Napster, the original file-sharing service, but to no avail. Their first online ventures, MusicNet and PressPlay, were disasters, largely because the labels didn't trust their users--or one another. High subscription fees and poor selections turned off would-be customers; most skulked off to the underground services, such as Kazaa and Limewire, which had sprung up after Napster's demise...