Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single survivor of the crash, an old Italian storekeeper named Bernardo, reunite with his American son after a period of walking around dazed and frightened. But what his narration says is roughly this: Most lives are tolerable but fairly dull, a bit confused, and very unlikely to change. Glorious messenger does not come riding, alas. Or so Lennon sees things now. He is quite convincing, and probably right...
...GLORIOUS TIME FOR APPLE...
...Computer Inc. included me and my years at the company, from April 1983 to June 1993 [BIZ WATCH, July 21]. However, there seem to be some details missing. I have this strange memory that after 1985, but before the introduction of the handheld Newton in 1993, Apple had some glorious years with desktop publishing, multimedia Macs, PowerBooks, educational Macs, the marketing campaign of the decade and the No. 1-selling personal computer worldwide. Guess it was just a figment of my imagination. JOHN SCULLEY New York City
...long ago, we shut down the press at the weekly newspaper my family owned in my Iowa hometown of Greenfield (pop. 2,074). After 108 years, its glorious Wednesday-night baritone was not to be heard. No more would it summon folks to come and read how kids' crepe-paper birthdays rivaled royal cotillions, or how the class dullard shone like a bright star...
...rampant slaughtering and torturing drove millions, including my parents, to flee to Hong Kong. Sure, the British took Hong Kong unjustly. But without them, Hong Kong wouldn't have a prosperous free-enterprise economy, a free society governed by law, a clean and efficient government. So now that the glorious Union Jack has been lowered for the last time in beautiful Hong Kong, I want to thank the British for all they've done to make Hong Kong what it is today. BENJAMIN KONG, age 15 Arcadia, Calif...