Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peter F. Williams of Heathcote, New South Wales, Australia, located Comet 1998 P1 (Williams) by telescope on August 10, the first clear night after days of torrential downpour and strong winds that had kept the sky clouded and unobservable...
...stakes are sky-high for Americans and people around the world in the contest between financial openness and the growing trend toward controls on capital. If more and more countries manipulate their capital flows, currencies and merchandise imports for competitive advantage--as they did on the cusp of the Great Depression--the threat could spread to U.S. jobs. U.S. unemployment has already edged up from 4.5% in August to 4.6% in September, a month which also saw the slowest rate of job creation in nearly three years...
Most hedge funds use these tools to diversify. But a few, like Long Term Capital, have used them to make huge borrowed-money bets on instruments that can't be found in any newspaper, seeking sky-high returns that can't be sustained. These aren't hedge funds so much as hedge hogs...
...dictates of Moscow. On the other hand, the forces that destroyed him were not particularly admirable either, beginning with an ill-chosen wife and her vindictive daughter. But even they are not really, in Roth's novel, ultimately culpable. At the end, Nathan stares at the night sky and imagines the stars as the deceased people in his story, freed from praise or censure, burning bright. Roth's fiction achieves at this moment the transcendence of elegy...
...Vandyke. A divinity grad student from Roxie, Miss., he has spent his first two weeks here on a ward that has thus far seen no deaths. But tonight, from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., he is the on-call chaplain for the entire hospital. In his pocket is a sky-blue beeper that will sound the moment someone's vital signs fail. He wonders how he will respond. Last night's on-call was faced with the death of an eight-year-old boy mangled by dogs. "I don't know if I could have..." Baker begins and then trails...