Word: merger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dwindling ranks of the U.S. airline industry lost another contender last week: Chicago-based Midway Airlines, the 12th largest U.S. carrier. Midway suddenly ceased operations after much larger Northwest Airlines pulled out of a $153 million merger deal that would have rescued the bankrupt Chicago airline, which was started in 1979. Northwest said it backed out because it had been given incorrect revenue data. But Midway is weighing a lawsuit. The collapse put Midway's 4,300 employees into unemployment lines and left passengers stranded in many of the 41 cities Midway had served...
...PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS. Bumbling burglars, wiseacre kids, nasty adults, guilty secrets: this spook sonata sounds like a forced merger of Home Alone and Arsenic and Old Lace. The movie is all setup and little payoff, but writer-director Wes Craven (the first Nightmare on Elm Street) and a good cast make it fun. Sometimes the best part of a horror movie is waiting to be scared...
...superchips represent the merger of two quintessentially American pastimes: car customizing and computer hacking. When the first "engine management" chips debuted, some bright young computer types broke the coding and discovered that the tuning devices supplied by the manufacturers were designed for average drivers using low-octane fuel and left considerable room for improvement. With some minor adjustments, the processors that control engine timing and gear shifting could be reprogrammed for speed demons burning high-test to increase horsepower anywhere from...
...device just to run it. As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, every new medium takes its content from its predecessor: early films were simply recorded stage plays; the first TV shows were converted radio dramas. The same is probably true of this newest medium, which represents the merger of all its predecessors. At the moment, interactive multimedia is a powerful tool whose best uses remain on the horizon...
...these issues pale before the newly revealed miracle of fertilization, an event so dizzyingly complex that researchers say the more they know, the more they wonder that it works as often as it does. The actual merger of egg and sperm turns out to be one of the most straightforward steps in the process -- and the easiest to duplicate in a test tube. The events that occur before and after that union, scientists say, are where the real troubles...