Word: rated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Executive Jet commands more than 75% of the fractional-ownership market--down from 100%. Its success has lured a couple of jetmakers into the game, including Raytheon, which sells Beech and Hawker jets. Bombardier, a leading competitor, is adding fractional owners at a rate of more than 100 a year; it has more than 350 clients using 65 Learjet and Challenger aircraft. A booming economy continues to enlarge the ranks of fractional flyers. Over the past 3 1/2 years, Executive Jet has ordered 590 aircraft, paying $9.75 billion and expanding into Europe and Asia...
...charts and graphs to track students' progress. A flexible program, it adapts the complexity of its language to the age of the budding typist, beginning at age eight. Someday I hope to become good enough to tap out a sonnet, one of the advanced options. But at the rate I'm going, let's just say I'm not holding my breath...
...virus in the U.S. were African Americans. By 1988, African Americans accounted for 70% or more of the AIDS cases among heterosexual men, heterosexual women and children. These alarming statistics haven't got much better since then. Even now, African Americans have an AIDS incidence and a death rate that are 10 times those of whites...
PHONE USERS AT&T 7[cent] rate escalates price war. So how come our bill seems bigger...
BABY BLUE...OR PINK? Expectant moms: your guess about your baby's sex is, overall, no better than chance, says a survey. But researchers did find that women with 12 or more years of education were correct 71% of the time--far more than less-educated women, whose accuracy rate was 43%. More puzzling: the most accurate predictors were women who relied on dreams or gut feelings, not physical signals. Still, says Johns Hopkins study co-author Janet DiPietro, none of the above dare "run out and paint the nursery pink or blue...