Word: late
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mondavi Corp.: for a decade it had increased revenues at an average of 15.5% a year, leading an industrywide wine boom. Profits kept pace until 1998, but then they dropped more than 20% from a year earlier, to $29 million. Partly that was bad luck, the delayed effect of late rains in 1996 that ruined harvests and kept the company from making enough of its best-selling Woodbridge Chardonnay to meet demand a year later. But Mondavi neglected to warn retailers of the shortage and failed to put them on allocation--tell them each store could get only part...
...evil? During the perennial debate over partial-birth abortion, something important changed, but the extremists running the show were so dug in that they let the moment pass. For the first time in decades, pro-choicers (and the much desired soccer moms) were confronted with the statistics showing that late-term abortions weren't quite so rare or performed solely in grave circumstances and that the "health of mother" exception had expanded to include numerous gauzy psychological factors. The 1973 trimester construction of Roe v. Wade seemed at odds with what our eyes could see. Viability comes sooner...
...police and paramilitaries could move in to put the population to flight, torch their houses and kill any residents who refused to go. While the West was trying to negotiate a diplomatic settlement at Rambouillet, Milosevic was positioning his forces. By the time NATO started bombing in late March, the VJ, police and paramilitaries were operating in concert across Kosovo--in Pec, Pristina, Podujevo. The tactics were always the same, and slaughtering civilians was the essential prod to the exodus...
Former Undergraduate Council President Beth A. Stewart '00 took her political opinions to the national airwaves last Thursday, appearing as a guest on ABC television's late-night talk show "Politically Incorrect," hosted by comedian Bill Maher...
Former Undergraduate Council President Beth A. Stewart '00 took her political opinions to the national air-waves last Thursday, appearing as a guest on ABC television's late-night talk show "Politically Incorrect," hosted by comedian Bill Maher...