Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death of many inefficient firms that have been propped up by government loans and subsidies. "This is the first time the government has been willing to push everyone into the ocean," says Denis Simon, a China strategist for Andersen Consulting. "They're essentially saying, 'O.K., you either sink or swim...
What makes these riches especially sweet is that Case has come close to wrecking his magical money machine. The self-demolition derby started last fall, when AOL's strained network backed up like a kitchen sink. New York City users were calling access numbers in places as far away as Alaska before getting through. In December, when AOL changed its pricing structure to allow for unlimited access at a flat rate, the mess worsened, and customers screamed. Attorneys general threatened to sue AOL for promising service it couldn't deliver. Wall Street analysts argued that this was the sort...
...wanted to share everything together. I thought that we were a very good team... Here was a fairy story that everybody wanted to work. And it was isolating, but it was also a situation where you couldn't indulge in feeling sorry for yourself. You had to either sink or swim, and you had to learn that very fast... I swam...
...looked for his cigarettes. "They don't work, or have insufficient supplies, or they ask for, excuse me, crazy prices." Abruptly calling off his search, Vasily got up to make tea. He switched on the hot plate, shorting it out and starting a small fire near the sink. As his wife rose to extinguish it, the cosmonaut grew ever more morose...
...lived in Jewel's Volkswagen van. Her mother bought her own van, and the two often parked side by side. They used the lavatories at the local K Mart or at the Denny's by the intersection of Mission and Gabriel, where Jewel washed her hair at the sink and, with suds still on her head, winced when people behind her complained about the homeless. A chronic kidney disease forced her into the hospital at one point--though at first, clinic after clinic turned her away because of her poverty...