Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serials, where conflict often revolves around a town's monied Protestant dynasty and its less privileged newcomers. Here, we have the Cranes vs. the Lopez-Fitzgeralds. In typically unseemly soap opera fashion, it is Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald (Lindsay Korman), Hispanic and the daughter of a maid, who is the gold digger who goes after Harmony's wealthiest young scion. The African-American family in this essentially racially balanced cast ("I want to entertain everyone," says Reilly. "I want people to look at the show and identify with it") receives somewhat more enlightened treatment. They are a happy and prosperous...
DIED. MARSHALL WAYNE, 87, Olympic diver; in Hendersonville, N.C. At the 1936 Berlin Games, Wayne won a gold medal and a silver medal by beating his German opponents, earning Hitler's displeasure...
...where muggings and more violent crimes are rarely out of the news. Despite plans to clean up Johannesburg and revive its commercial heart, the country's northern gateway remains economically distressed. The Carlton, the city's main hotel, closed down last year. To avoid the dangers of the former gold-mining center, many visitors begin their stay instead in the wealthy new Rosebank-Sandton area to the north, which offers luxury hotels, office blocks and shopping malls. From there they travel to the eastern game parks of Mpumalanga (formerly the eastern Transvaal), the casino resort of Sun City...
...Californian like me, the Civil War always seemed like a sideshow of American history. Out west, most people were more interested in making money than fighting the war--although California managed to donate a few shipments of gold to the national treasury, it never bothered to send actual soldiers to the battlefield. Los Angeles was, and is, closer to Mexico City than to Gettysburg...
...news for the miners is that the price of gold is unlikely to rise again anytime soon. "Gold was traditionally considered a hedge against inflation," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "Now there?s no reason to hold on to it because there?s no threat of inflation in the foreseeable future. It?s not an attractive investment because it offers no return, and the supply has grown despite falling demand, driving the price even lower." The best hope for the miners is an unforeseen catastrophe. "Right now it would take a major shock in the global economy...