Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American Express is staking its future on a new set of credit cards with an accent on lowbrow utility and coupon-clipping value. This week it will begin to roll out some dozen cards, each one pitched at a different segment of the consumer market. Some cards will bear the exclusive imprimatur of AmEx and will boast waived fees; others will share billing with other companies that offer a range of enticements, like frequent-flyer miles and car discounts. All will offer revolving credit at rates expected to rival AmEx's less tony rivals. And where business travelers were once...
...indicate a potential cause of the accident: one or more of the components called "actuators," which help slow the plane's movement, may have been set off without a command from the cockpit. That action could have inappropriately reversed the thrust of the engines, causing the plane to roll off into a dive. The actuators are normally deployed to slow a plane down only after landing. USAir records show a flight crew reported problems with the plane's reverse thrust two and a half months earlier...
...director like Michael Curtiz made six or seven pictures a year. Even today, TV can crank out a news-based movie (on Tonya Harding or the Waco siege) within a couple of months of the event. But in theatrical features, where everyone is conscious of art, ego and the roll of megamillion-dollar dice, the average film takes a couple of years from first draft to opening...
...already laid 350,000 miles of fiber-optic cable, are eagerly waiting to purchase a new generation of fast video "servers" that squeeze movies and other programming down to the right size and deliver them to customers virtually on demand. Hewlett-Packard and other manufacturers are scrambling to roll out such servers by next year at prices of up to $20 million...
...Garcia, Ernesto Molina Sosa. For 95 minutes, until he became too hoarse to continue, Miami radio personality Tomas Garcia Fuste broadcast a list of 1,793 Cubans who fled their country last week only to wind up at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. For listeners on Castro's island, the roll call provided welcome assurance that their loved ones had at least not perished in the treacherous Florida Straits...