Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nelson Mandela, fresh from an adulation-filled trip to London, got royal treatment of a different order when Michael Jackson showed up at his 78th birthday party. Oddly, Jackson didn't join in during the singing of Happy Birthday. No loss for Mandela, who likes to dance (he does a mean toyi-toyi) but whose taste leans more toward '50s township music than...
...street corners, talking about what they had seen, reflecting on their narrow escape from death. There were few tears. It was too soon for anger. Most were gripped by a paralyzing sense of sadness and resignation. Many lingered in the streets as the darkness began to fade and a fresh shift of security volunteers arrived to replace those who had worked through the night. "I don't know if it's going to keep me from coming down here," said Sultan Muhammad, who saw the explosion. "But I hope it doesn't keep other people away. The games were just...
Like the boom in the stock market, the surge in IPOs has been fueled by the astonishing torrent of cash pouring into mutual funds--cash that has to be invested. The net assets of stock funds have jumped nearly 75%, to $1.53 trillion, since January 1995 alone. Fresh cash has been arriving this year at the rate of more than $20 billion a month. All told, some 2,800 companies have gone public since 1990, raising about $150 billion to build new factories and help create more than 10 million new jobs...
...damaged the monarchy terribly, they may also have provided its salvation in William, the bright, likable prince just emerging into young manhood and just beginning to capture the public's imagination. As the divorce brings one act of the royal drama to an end, another one begins, with a fresh and appealing star...
Bostick attributes much of his athletic longevity to a nutritional diet that includes lots of fruits, fresh vegetables and nutritional supplements. But the real reason Bostick defeated favored competitors 15 years his junior to make the Olympic team had nothing to do with sustenance. "Kent might not have been the fastest rider, but he was the one who wanted it the most," says Frank Scioscia, director of Bostick's riding team, Shaklee--named for its health-food-company sponsor. "In athletics, desire is often the deciding factor...