Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bones, despite positive DNA tests. He calls them the "Yekaterinburg remains," a reference to the town in the Urals where the imperial family was killed in the early hours of July 17, 1918. President Boris Yeltsin--who as Communist Party chief there in 1977 had destroyed the site of the massacre--denounced the murder during his funeral address but stuck to the official church description of the remains as innocent and unnamed victims...
Many networks--as well as a site on the Web--offered Russians live coverage of the events. But life in St. Petersburg went on as usual. The center of the city is turning into a smaller version of Moscow, with Gucci shops and bodyguards, hotels with London prices and unofficial landmarks of the new order--like the spot on Nevsky Prospekt, the city's most famous shopping street, where a top government official was gunned down last year in a highly professional contract hit. As the funeral proceeded, city streets were busy, shops and offices were open as usual...
...suite, around 1,700 sq. ft., which they needed for the computer servers that would gather and store the data, and the people who would feed and care for them. But by the end of the year they needed more space and moved into a 12,000-sq.-ft. site in Sunnyvale, where they went public. "We thought, 'This is great. We'll never fill this place up,'" recalls Yang. Wrong. Last year, after moving into a 33,000-sq.-ft. floor of a Santa Clara industrial park, they spread onto two additional floors in a neighboring building...
...every President since Thomas Jefferson (he gave it the name "the President's own"), and both George Washington and Adams earlier heard it perform. In 1848, when a wagon hauling the 24,500-lb. cornerstone of the Washington Monument broke through a bridge, the Marine Band hurried to the site and, by that day's accounts, played "spirited melodies" to inspire the workmen...
...Piano, Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting, as well as Scream). The third member of what Weinstein refers to, perhaps inevitably, as "the Three Musketeers" is Ronald A. Galotti, the "blockbuster publisher of Vogue" (Brown's words) and before that Brown's colleague as publisher of Vanity Fair, site of her previous editorship (both magazines are part of the Conde Nast group, owned by S.I. Newhouse Jr., who also owns the New Yorker). Though he cuts a lower media profile than his colleagues, Galotti is known to cognoscenti as the model for "Mr. Big" in the New York Observer...