Word: hopeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope so. I hope...
...problem with simply discarding hope for an on-the-ground insurgency is that the in-the-air war is expensive and, top commanders will sometimes admit, ineffective. Almost every day at Incirlik is Groundhog Day, as in Bill Murray's 1993 film. "You wake up, you come in, you get ready to launch the aircraft, you launch the aircraft, they come back, you recover them, you go home," says Staff Sergeant George Palo, who maintains aircraft fuel systems. "We don't have a lot of calendars around here, because the only day that counts...
...just been scalded by what we call an earnings blow-up. Now what? Do you lie there inert, screaming "Where's the rest of my stock?" Nah. In the trenches of capitalism where I toil, one of these high-explosive blow-ups hits me monthly, obliterating any hope of a quick profit, or perhaps producing a staggering unrealized loss. IBM, Xerox, Unisys and Lexmark have all detonated recently. First, take heart. You aren't the only one dumb enough to bet on a great company during a period of unsettling sales growth and a Fed turned hostile to higher stock...
...sure whether the issue is a supply problem or just sloppy execution? Wait a month, if not a quarter. Silence in this case is golden, because most companies would not take the extreme measure of announcing a shortfall if they had any hope, near term, that there could be a turn in fortunes. In other words, as bleak as things are, these companies usually take this extraordinary step because they believe things are even darker in the near term, and they don't want to mislead...
...online--it is only natural to ask what the 21st century will hold for us. We trust that the future will outmarvel the past, but all we can say for sure is that our lives will change more swiftly than ever. In the following pages we ask what we hope are provocative questions about our health and the health of our planet. The sobering news is that we will have more people to care for; the good news is that technology and common sense should allow us to take better care of the place we call home. Meanwhile, the imminent...