Word: send
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said they would fight France's stubborn 12.8% unemployment rate by creating 700,000 government-backed jobs, reduce the workweek from 39 to 35 hours with no loss in pay, suspend planned privatizations, cut the sales tax and raise the minimum wage. The leftist platform, if implemented, threatens to send the deficits soaring and derail French chances of meeting the tough criteria for joining Europe's single currency, the euro. With Germany racked by increasing doubts about its own ability to make the grade, the French election touched off a new though probably exaggerated round of Euro-pessimism...
...positioning a product in the mind of consumers so that it's relevant to them," says Bobby Calder, a marketing professor at Northwestern. "When that's been done, it's mission accomplished." And until that's been done, expect more ad campaigns to change their tune as more clients send their agencies packing...
...conservationists and government officials. There isn't much point in poaching because contraband ivory is so difficult--and dangerous--to sell. If the market were opened up, though, the situation could change overnight. Says Dave Currey, director of the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency: "Even a partial relaxation would send a message to poachers that ivory trade is back." Indeed, the message may already be out. David Barritt, African director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, reports that elephant poachers recently arrested in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, said they had been told the ivory trade would "soon...
...Army General Wesley Clark, commander of U.S. forces in Central and South America; Marine Corps Commandant General Charles Krulak and Army General George A. Joulwan. Defense Secretary Cohen, who must find a suitable nominee before General John Shalikashvili retires from the post in September, has said he would probably send President Clinton a recommendation in a few weeks. But Pentagon officials concede that all potential nominees will face a once-over into their private lives, and that may make the process more time-consuming than they?d like...
...even the most recalcitrant differential equations, they couldn't pass messages. The mainframes spoke a different language from the desktops at the library, and so on. The solution: a wire-stuffed box that performed a kind of simultaneous translation, enabling IBM machines to talk to Digital machines, wife to send grocery list to husband. By 1990, as the first hints of the Internet emerged, the company went public. The founding couple left, while Cisco began its sprint to stardom...