Word: signal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Much of the time, those errors are nothing more than episodes of the human comedy. Occasionally they become something worse. This is what happened at Rancho Santa Fe, where foolish notions hardened into fatal certainties. In the arrival of Comet Hale-Bopp, the cult members saw a signal that their lives would end soon. There are many things about which they were badly mistaken. But on that one intuition, they made sure they were tragically correct...
...their shirts, making identifying the bodies easy. While the how seems clear, the why is not so easy. It appears that members may have simply believed that their time was up. They described on video their obsession with the arrival of the comet Hale-Bopp - to them, the signal to them that it was time to leave this world to head to what they called the Next Level. They believed that the way to get there was by shedding their physical selves in order to board a UFO trailing the comet...
...quarter portfolios in time for the three-day Easter holiday were also to blame. The bond market benefitted from those fears, with yields on 30-year Treasury bonds hitting 7.06 percent, up from 6.98 percent late Wednesday. Key victims of the frenzied sell-off included heavy weights Allied Signal, 3M, Exxon, Coca-Cola and Procter &Gamble. The dollar, meanwhile, also suffered, taking a slight dive to close at 123.48 yen and 1.6898 marks...
...settlement. Late last month, for example, rumors swirled about a settlement under which tobacco companies would pay the hefty sum of $10 billion a year--more than the industry currently earns. Philip Morris stock promptly rose $6, creating $5 billion of market value and sending up a smoke signal so dense that even the long-in-denial tobacco industry had to notice. The burning question is this: If the market is ready to embrace such a costly settlement--and antitobacco forces, realizing they're getting nowhere fast in their legal battles, will go for it--how can tobacco executives refuse...
Just twenty-nine seconds into the game, with the referee's arm in the air waiting to signal a Harvard penalty, Cornell forward Jamie Papp broke free from the crowd of players at the right side boards and stuffed the puck through the legs of Harvard goal-tender J.R. Prestifilippo...