Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George W. Bush was falling into a rut. For all his early success--a gaudy lead in the polls, a $37 million-and-rising war chest--the Texas Governor, after a month of delivering the same airy, slogan-rich speech, was sounding stale and tired by mid-July. His Republican opponents were calling him the all-money-and-no-message candidate, and the label was beginning to stick. (Sensitive to the charge, Bush half seriously asked his finance chairman if there was any way "to slow down" the flow of contributions.) And to make matters worse, Bill Clinton was trying...
...Nikkei rocket has been fueled almost entirely by foreign cash. In the last month foreigners have bought $1.8 billion of Japanese equities on average each week, according to Bridgewater Associates, a money-management firm based in Wilton, Conn. At the same time, locals have sold more than $2 billion worth each week. Cashing out? You bet. That imbalance between sellers and buyers finally caught up with the market last week, which ended in a 4% dive...
...each aspect of development altering every other as the project evolves, the design group producing first sketches, then computer work-ups and finally physical prototypes in a perpetual rondelet with the software guys, Rubinstein's hardware jocks and Jobs, who was a continual presence during the iBook's 18-month gestation...
...exception to the inclusion of Dixie in his songbook. Many consider the Confederate marching song, which was played at Jefferson Davis' inauguration, to be nostalgic for slavery. Rehnquist is not commenting publicly, but we do have some insight into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered, and won, a contest in the Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock column by figuring out that a license plate reading 1 DIV 0 referred to an Infiniti. He's sure to clean up during Supreme Court Justice Week on Jeopardy...
...Harlem and other neighborhoods seldom frequented by those whose celebrity or wealth affords them the protection of limos and entourages. Others on the Robin Hood board say he loved holding their meetings in the roughest neighborhoods, though he generally deferred to their desire for more convenient midtown locations. This month's session was scheduled for last Wednesday in his office...