Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When dinner was over, Eisner went to the law firm Dewey Ballantine to iron out the final niceties of Disney's $19 billion deal to buy Capital Cities/ABC. And next morning, when he and Cap Cities chairman Thomas Murphy arrived on Good Morning America to stun the world with news of their merger, it was tempting to view Eisner's triumph as the kind of danouement usually reserved for the last 10 minutes of a Disney movie. Wall Street whooped at the deal, which united Disney's theme parks and movie and television studios with ABC's gold-plated network...
...economic potential is equally enormous. Majestically swirling ocean currents influence much of the world's weather patterns; figuring out how they operate could save trillions of dollars in weather-related disasters. The oceans also have vast reserves of commercially valuable minerals, including nickel, iron, manganese, copper and cobalt. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are already analyzing deep-sea bacteria, fish and marine plants looking for substances that they might someday turn into miracle drugs. Says Bruce Robison, of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California: "I can guarantee you that the discoveries beneficial to mankind will far outweigh those...
...does. Seawater percolates down through cracks in the crust, getting progressively hotter. It doesn't boil, despite temperatures reaching up to 400 degrees C, because it is under terrific pressure. Finally, the hot water gushes back up in murky clouds that cool rapidly, dumping dissolved minerals, including zinc, copper, iron, sulfur compounds and silica, onto the ocean floor. The material hardens into chimneys, known as "black smokers" (one, nicknamed Godzilla, towers 148 ft. above the bottom...
Seems the U.S Forest Service thought the rocks along a road in Washington's Cascade Mountains didn't look, well, natural enough. The service was going to spray them with a liquid mixture of iron and manganese, until a public outcry over wasting $37,000 to do it forced second thoughts. The Forest Service now says it will let the Mother Nature work on the rocks for a year before making a decision on whether they look weathered enough...
...only time will tell." At the same time, she has been painstakingly cautious in her statements. She confessed to a natural affinity for the military because her father, Burmese nationalist hero Aung San, was a general. Her charm offensive was extraordinary -- but how will the junta react when the iron-willed Suu Kyi starts speaking more freely? "They have been known to misjudge the situation very badly," says Zunetta Liddell, a researcher for Human Rights Watch/Asia in London, "and I think they may have done...