Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Apple, for Jobs, was a messianic imperative: give the world a Mac, and the rest of the Flower Power agenda would follow. The classic-rock sound track wittily comments on his pilgrim's progress: dropping acid; dodging cops in People's Park; undergoing primal-scream therapy; abusing employees during midnight prowls down Apple's halls; inexplicably refusing to acknowledge paternity of his baby daughter Lisa, who lives with her mother in an Oregon commune...
Whether you're scared of the Y2K bug, psyched for a new beginning in a world where time starts at zero or afraid that the universe will end when the clock strikes midnight, next New Year's Eve is shaping up to be the Main Event. (A note to all you mathematicians--yes, the new millennium does technically begin in 2001, but the apocalyptic nature of all those zeroes has us focusing on 2000 as the de facto turning point...
...Using the media as a means for communicating and making an impact is an essential part of public life," Dukakis says. "You need to get your ideas across some how. Doing things at midnight in a barn somewhere isn't going to have an impact...
...most popular places in the Square, the Wursthaus was open until 1 a.m., while the rest of the Square bars closed at quarter to midnight...
American Airlines Flight 1420 came in during a thunderstorm just before midnight Tuesday, and the rain-slicked runway just wasn't long enough. The twin-engine Super MD-80 outran 7,200 feet of asphalt, careened past an access road and whipped around a metal tower that peeled back the plane's thin shell on the left side, said one passenger, "like a sardine can." Then the spilled fuel caught fire, and the race to get out was on. Of 139 passengers and six crew members on board, 80 people were injured and taken to hospitals. Fifty-one others...