Word: germane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another jittery ride Friday. The Dow veered wildly between a 150 point drop and a 60 point-climb, ending the day off by 114. Europe was in an ambiguous mood, too. At one point investors couldn't get their money out of stocks -- and into bonds -- fast enough. British, German and French exchanges all tumbled more than 4 percent in early trading, before word from New York helped to recoup around half those losses. Still, nobody is able to put the ruble's woes completely out of their mind. The price of gold is now the lowest it's been...
...competitor Cosmopolitan. The truth is, the publications are quite different because Cosmo is the sort of magazine in which the words foreign and policy would never make a joint appearance, save perhaps in a piece on how to pick up sultans of small Arab countries or graying German auto executives...
...agression -- it makes oil prices go up. So how to explain the Dow's 250-point plunge Friday? FORTUNE Wall Street writer Bethany McLean says that traders just have too many other things to worry about. "There's a rumor that Venezuela might devalue. Russia looks even shakier today. German banks were battered last night because of their exposure to Russia, and another Japanese bank went under," she says. "There are just too many worries today that the whole crisis is snowballing...
...good. Out of 24 major attacks on American targets since Iranian fundamentalists seized the Tehran embassy in 1979, only eight ever ended in arrest and trial, and three of those eight assaults took place in the U.S. Only once, when Libya was blamed for the 1986 bombing of a German discotheque, did the U.S. retaliate militarily. But persistence has paid off: the Palestinian who set a bomb on a Pan Am jet that killed one person in 1982 was finally turned over to American courts in June. The U.S. has also developed extensive and effective preventive measures...
...proto-form of the motorcycle was simply a velocipede with a steam-engine jammed in it, made in France in 1868. The first true serial production bike, with which the Guggenheim show begins, was made in 1894 by the German firm of Hildebrand & Wolfmuller; its enormous engine--1,489 cc, the biggest that would be fitted to a production machine until the 1980s--chugged it along at 30 m.p.h. Motorcycle technology advanced so quickly under the spell of the fin-de-siecle obsession with heroic speed that only 13 years later, in 1907, the future aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss...