Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like BMW and Mercedes, which have had their U.S. revenues run over first by a bad economy and then by Japanese luxury models. "It was not just accidental sheer desire to build a vehicle," says Rick Ford, a senior vice president of Porsche, USA. "With this company we can ill afford an error." Porsche saw its U.S. sales nose-dive from a high...
Nelson says Rawlins' proposal is complicated and ill-advised...
...bargained for the kind of trouble the production got last August, when Titanic was filming in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Late one evening dozens of cast and crew members became ill after eating seafood chowder that had been laced with PCP. Cameron rejects the idea that someone was avenging the director's high-handed behavior. "It would be easy to say the crew was disgruntled, but it was the last night of shooting [there]... It would be a dumb time to disrupt things," he reasons. Police have yet to crack the case...
...argument proponents of the grants increase often employ is that many of the council's events are ill-planned and badly attended. The less money the Campus Life and Student Affairs committees have to plan new events, the less likely they are to be successful. Increasing the grants allocation contributes to a cycle of decline for these other committees, making them more susceptible to future budget-cutters. Down the road, this change is likely to transform the council as a whole into a clearing-house for grants, not a true student government. Elizabeth T. Bangs '97 Andrew A. Green...
...expect six to eight weeks of convalescence--and some massive political and economic problems--when he gets back to work. In any case the surgery is the most important step in ending the state of suspended political animation that has gripped the Kremlin since late June, when Yeltsin fell ill, exhausted by the campaign and drained by the stress of firing his closest aide, Alexander Korzhakov...