Word: lode
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simpsons, King of the Hill and Darnell's shockumentaries score best with young male viewers, who are much coveted by advertisers but increasingly hard to tear away from their Sony PlayStations. Fox is betting that an even more aggressive cartoon slate will increase its appeal to that demographic mother lode...
Confident that they will learn still more about creatures that ruled the earth unchallenged for more than 200 million years, Chiappe and his colleagues plan to return to their dinosaurian mother lode next March. Says Coria: "This discovery opens large doors that had remained closed for years." To make sure the site won't fall prey to contemporary egg snatchers, the provincial government has declared it a protected "paleontological park" and is keeping it under full-time guard...
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...fire the accountant just yet, though. There are two big changes that do affect your '97 return, and together they are the mother lode for those who have sold a home or hitched their finances to the bull market in stocks and stock mutual funds. Home sales will be treated vastly differently going forward. But if you sold last year, you may be able to apply either the old or the new law--a one-time-only chance to have the best of both worlds. The capital-gains tax rate on stocks has been cut, potentially saving you a bundle...
...been nine months since Clinton played federal marshal in the Great Yellowstone Mine Shootout. The dispute began in the late 1980s as new techniques for locating pay dirt suddenly turned old claims on Henderson into a $1 billion lode of extractable ore. The glitch was that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed...