Word: friday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unplanned visits, chance meetings, impromptu drinks--these are just the sort of Filofax-be-damned encounters royal life does not amply provide. On a Friday evening last month, however, at Prince Charles' St. James's Palace apartment, there occurred some rather significant spur-of-the-moment socializing. Just nine days before his 16th birthday, Prince William, en route from boarding school to the movies with friends, called his father to tell him he'd be stopping home for a change of clothes. Prince Charles asked his son if he would not mind spending a few moments with a houseguest...
McGarrell, who describes himself as a "teacher," insists that the group is an informal bunch of friends that "gets together on Friday nights to drink beer and play trombones...
...online stock trading service E*Trade got a big boost Friday afternoon when the giant Japanese software distributor Softbank announced it was investing a fresh $400 million in the upstart brokerage. Forget Kleiner Perkins -- the Tokyo-based Softbank is the real kingmaker when it comes to anointing web frontrunners. The investment raises Softbank's stake to 27% of E*Trade, and matches the company's large ownership interest in other web winners like Yahoo (31%) and Geocities (35%). Softbank also owns more than 70% of electronics publishing giant Ziff-Davis...
...where's the fire? According to archaeologists writing in the journal Science Friday, it's not in the caves of Zhoudoudian, China. What was previously thought to be a 500,000-year-old fireplace there turns out to lack the tell-tale traces of wood ash. That leaves us with no evidence that our distant ancestor Homo Erectus had any idea how to set the world alight. Which is a problem, because Homo Erectus is supposed to have been busy colonizing the coldest climes of Asia back then. How on earth did he do it without a way to keep...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Perhaps the habit of violence can be changed after all. With the standoff in Portadown ready to turn into a massive weekend eruption, Protestant would-be marchers and the Catholic residents they would march past were talking Friday -- through intermediaries -- about a compromise. "Northern Ireland has run to the edge of the abyss, looked over, and decided they don't really want to jump," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand in Belfast. "The fact they're talking, even indirectly, is an amazing accomplishment...