Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which slowed the flow of largesse not even a little. The situation reached its apex--or nadir, if you prefer--in the bidding for last year's Winter Games, won by Nagano. By 1991 Salt Lake City, always a suitable site and now represented by a savvy bid team, had grown to be an odds-on choice. But Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, then one of the world's richest men, had a dream: an Olympics in Nagano. "When I speak, 100 politicians jump" was his calling card. When he said he wanted to be president of Japan's Olympic committee, that group...
...handle that kind of volatility and prefer steadier performance, old tech may be your best bet. Neither old nor new tech, however, is for the squeamish. That's who they make bonds...
...Internet inherently weak as a provocative medium, but the Web site does not explicitly call for violence against abortion doctors. Furthermore, the site can be viewed as an informational political vehicle, since it also urges voters to begin letter-writing campaigns against abortion. Much as we might prefer that the site be taken down, it would curtail the First Amendment to force the site's owners...
...problem for the White House is that the interests of the President and those of his party are not quite the same. "From the Democratic Party perspective, I don't see any downside to having a long trial," says a White House official. The Democrats would prefer not to see Clinton thrown out of office. But they cannot have failed to notice that the bloodbath in the House helped their party and hurt the Republicans. In fact, the only Democrat to lose from what happened in the House was Clinton...
...gadgetry for safety and entertainment represents the new lap of luxury. The BMW 740i, for example, can be equipped with a navigation and traction control system that acclimates from driving on normal pavement to moving through a winter storm with the touch of a switch. Road-weary travelers might prefer GM's sophisticated stability system, which uses two-directional sensors attached to the car's suspension, steering column and brakes to keep the car on its intended course. Mercedes last year began offering near obstacle detection, which uses radar to alert drivers to objects close...