Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only solution may be to bring in private capital from abroad by floating stocks and bonds, and Western bankers are ready to help. Says Ray Spitzley, executive director of Morgan Stanley Asia in Hong Kong: "China has evolved into a credit-worthy country that can tap world markets." Maybe so, but the poor showing of the few stocks traded internationally has made investors skittish. Eager to make their securities more attractive, Chinese officials are talking with the World Bank about setting up a Chinese National Power and Development Fund that would sell bonds backed by the bank to private investors...
...Billy Ray Dale, former White House travel office chief, pleaded not guilty to embezzling money paid by the news media for travel with the president, and asked the judge for the right to subpoena records from Hillary Rodham Clinton and other White House officials to prove his innocence. Among the records sought are those of the late Vincent Foster, the deputy White House counsel who committed suicide. Dale is accused of wrongfully pocketing at least $33,297. "Mr. Dale never spent a penny of government money or media money," his attorney, Steven C. Tabackman, said outside court. Dale claims that...
...sell more winter clothing and jackets," said Ray B. Hindle, manager of City Sports on Dunster Street...
Star Trek has won praise from many science-fiction writers. Ray Bradbury, a close friend of Roddenberry's until the latter's death in 1991, finds the show's popularity unsurprising: "We're living in a science-fiction time. We're swimming in an ocean of technology, and that's why Star Trek, Star Wars and 90% of the most successful films of the last 10 years are science fiction." Indeed, Star Trek has helped spark a revival of science fiction on TV, including such shows as Babylon 5 and SeaQuest DSV and an entire cable network...
Such change is inevitable in the view of Ray Budde, a retired University of Massachusetts professor of school administration who is credited with inventing the charter-school idea. "If you see kids leaving you and money leaving you and you're criticized about the job you're doing, you're going to respond," he says. "This is a wake-up call for the Establishment: the old organization doesn't fit the times. It's like the Berlin Wall -- it's got to come down. But it's going to take 10 or 20 years for something new to emerge...