Word: generale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sleek and powerful cruise line industry has run into very choppy American legal waters. On Wednesday, Attorney General Janet Reno announced that Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world?s second largest cruise company, had agreed to pay a record $18 million in fines as part of a guilty plea to 21 felony counts of dumping waste oil and hazardous chemicals from its ships. The company "polluted the very environment on which its business relies," said Reno. "They dumped everywhere: at sea, in port, at sensitive environmental areas." The fines are the stiffest ever to be levied on a cruise line...
...Where's it all coming from? According to Greg Maffei, the company's chief financial officer, who spoke at a press conference, the Office 2000 applications suite (which includes such warhorses as Word and Excel) has done particularly well: Sales of so-called productivity applications in general poured $2.9 billion into Microsoft's coffers, more than half its total income. Maffei also cited sales of Windows, improved sales in Asia (worth $570 million) and better performance from Microsoft's web ventures, such as MSN. Maffei also confirmed that Microsoft was considering creating a "tracking" stock for its Internet properties. MORE...
...already won," declared Hank Steinbrecher, the general secretary of U.S. Soccer, even before the American women's team's draining, dramatic penalty-kick shoot-out win over China on Saturday, "no matter what the score is going to be." But when defender Brandi Chastain blasted the team's fifth penalty kick past Chinese goalkeeper Gao Hong after 120 scoreless minutes, including two overtime periods, the American put a fitting exclamation point on a summer of soccer that had swept the nation off its feet. And then, before more than 90,000 screaming fans, including President Clinton, she whipped...
...GENERAL MOTORS Ordered to pay $4.9 billion--yes, billion--in damages to six people burned in a Chevy Malibu...
...four great architects of the U.S. civil rights movement; in Fredericksburg, Va. Farmer's Congress of Racial Equality provided the nonviolent vanguard for the perilous sit-ins and Freedom Rides to integrate the public places and transport of the South in the 1950s and '60s. Asked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to postpone some of their actions so that people could "cool off," Farmer replied, "We have been cooling off for 350 years...