Word: sine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dial. They know that as great as the company's service is and as promising as its various ventures may be, consumers can't send their kids to college or buy that vacation home unless Fidelity is in the money. As a former employee says, performance is the sine qua non; if Fidelity does not get back into the top 10%, the whole operation may stall...
...been a decade sine 1989 came and went, leaving cynics scoffing over the apparent inaccuracy of George Orwell's nightmarish vision of society's future...
...graduate student could not figure out the derivative of the sine wave an undergraduate had drawn on the blackboard...
...corporate downsizing and structural unemployment, the tax abatements are used rather differently. States and municipalities now actively lure companies away from other locations with huge incentive packages that often cover the company's entire start-up costs and moving expenses. With job creation a political sine qua non, cities and states are forced into ever more costly bidding wars for businesses...
...became clear to NBC that its only chance of keeping Letterman was to dump Leno as Tonight host and give Letterman the job -- something NBC executives had publicly ruled out. What's more, a "poison pill" in Letterman's CBS contract made the 11:30 time period a virtual sine qua non of any deal. The CBS contract promised Letterman a $50 million penalty payment if his show was not aired at 11:30. Since NBC, to keep Letterman, was required to match CBS's monetary deal, it would have had to include the same penalty payment -- effectively forcing...