Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...19th century predecessor has been given a raw reading by historians who are just as enamored of wars and depressions and human calamity as Hollywood. They have tended to write bad scripts, at least at first, for those Presidents who presided in moments of prosperity and tranquillity and kept them that way. Cases in point: George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Dwight Eisenhower, William Howard Taft and Martin Van Buren...
...Americans argued that if there is evidence of illegality, the Scientologists should be prosecuted under existing laws. The Germans replied that, well, there wasn't enough evidence for a trial, but even so, their government "has a responsibility to protect its citizens." Washington agrees that the lid should be kept on dangerous movements but thinks Bonn is tightening such restraints far beyond worrisome Nazi-like groups. "This is all extralegal in our view," says an American diplomat...
...Three men who vanished after they were kidnapped in 1985 were given coffee laced with sleeping pills and taken away to be shot. Their bodies were burned, then tossed into a river. Some sources also said that the police cut off a victim's hand after killing him and kept it in a bottle to terrify prisoners during interrogation...
...wouldn't you know it? AOL's phone lines were swamped once again, this time by users requesting refunds. Many of them were angry at being kept on hold for long periods, but state regulators pronounced themselves satisfied. Most analysts also seemed unconcerned. Said Lehman Brothers analyst Brian Oakes: "I think we've passed the peak of the problems with both the busy signals and the refund calls. There's always an initial wave...
Funny, that relationship almost came undone by a lack of computers and wires. For years the company flourished despite monthly fees of $9.95 for five hours online, plus $2.95 for each additional hour, which kept AOL's subscribers watching the clock. But the growing challenge from Internet- service providers like Netcom, AT&T and even Microsoft Network finally prompted AOL to lower its monthly fee to match the going rate of $19.95 for unlimited Internet access. For that amount, users would get not only the Internet but also AOL's own proprietary content, including games, scores of newspaper and magazine...