Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fewer and the service spottier. The food may be microwaved mediocrity. In the aging coaches, the decor runs to implausible orange and tepid yellows, the odor is museum quality. A $274 sleeping compartment on Amtrak's Cardinal, from Chicago to New York, manages ingeniously -- and torturously -- to cram sink, toilet, passenger seat, closet, water cooler, trash can, storage compartment and shoe locker into a space about...
...Mega Borg during the routine but dangerous process of lightering, transferring oil to smaller ships. The fires spread and set off more explosions, spewing burning oil and geysers of dense black smoke. With its stern slowly dropping as it filled with leaking oil, the Mega Borg seemed likely to sink, a calamity that might have released its entire cargo; if so, the prevailing currents would apparently have carried the spilled oil toward one of the nation's largest estuary systems, including a vast wildfowl refuge...
Before making his fateful decision to sink $1 billion into the bejeweled Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, Donald Trump should have done his homework on the ill fortune that befell the builder of the original Taj. The cost of constructing the 17th century Indian marvel, which took 20,000 laborers 22 years to complete, eventually exhausted the royal treasury of the Shahjahan and triggered the decline of the Mogul Empire. Nearly 350 years later, the Taj's modern namesake may have unleashed the grandiose downfall of Manhattan's self-styled King of the Deal...
...came from being in Egypt. When I first got to Egypt I thought of it like Disneyland, because there's an amazing amount of freedom if you're a Westerner there...So I had a good time for a few months." Then the significance of social conditions began to sink in, particularly the startling contrast between "the wealth of the elite and the next to nothing of the poor people. You see those contrasts so much more clearly than you do here, even between wealthy Harvard students and homeless people in the Square. It's so much more vast that...
...against the era of financial fraud and excess. After the collapse of hundreds of savings and loans, the Government last year barred S&Ls from lending amounts representing more than 15% of their capital to any one customer. The previous limit was 100%, which allowed some S&Ls to sink themselves by committing a dangerously large amount to a single venture. Moreover, federal examiners began using strict new requirements to judge the quality of lending by commercial banks. "When regulators are being tough, bankers too have to be very cautious in terms of the credit they extend," says Kenneth Guenther...