Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best-selling performers in the U.S. this year turned out to be Canadian--Alanis Morissette, a wishy-washy pop singer turned vengeful rocker, and Celine Dion, a wishy-washy pop singer who has become an internationally best-selling wishy-washy pop singer. The Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees also scored a breakthrough this year with their sophomore album, The Score, which has sold more than 5 million copies so far (their debut sold only 130,000). A look at any recent Billboard chart shows that hard-core rap continues to be a best-selling genre. And the Smashing...
...years critics proclaim that rock is dead, and then a band like Nirvana--or the Sex Pistols before them--comes around and changes everything. Now the hunt is definitely on for the next Next Big Thing. Ska is a candidate, with groups like No Doubt racking up sales. Trip-hop is another contender, with performers such as Tricky and Portishead. There are also electronic-dance-music forms like Jungle. "We see 1997 as a time of exploration in the music biz," says MTV's Schuon. Explains Lisa Cortes, former president of Loose Cannon Records: "People are hungry for different stories...
...William James Hall, Harvard gets its connection to the Internet. Your outgoing packets are sent via a microwave dish to MIT, where they hop onto NEARNet, Harvard's commercial link to the backbone of the Internet...
...that's true, there's still ample time for investors to hop aboard. And wouldn't it be nice if Al led the way. At Scott, he bought $2 million of stock at $19 on his first day. A few months later, with the price nearing $30 and most of Wall Street fretting that Dunlap had topped out, he showed them. He bought another $2 million worth. The stock doubled to $61. Similarly, when Dunlap joined Sunbeam in July, he bought $3 million of stock at $12 a share. The stock has since doubled, and Wall Street again questions...
...ruling invited a mob of contenders, credible and otherwise, to hop back into the race. And this was bad news for Democrats in an increasingly Republican state. Ken Bentsen, nephew of the state's most revered former Senator, has problems enough with the fact that his Houston district, marginally Democratic when he won it in 1992, tilted slightly Republican under the court-ordered redesign. To avoid a runoff, he must win a majority of the votes next month against no fewer than 10 opponents, ranging from a refinery worker backed by the Socialist Workers Party to a district judge favored...