Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon sun begins to sink slowly intothe western sky, Charles A. Watson yells out, "Areyou looking for something?" The man outside theCambridge Street Laundromat, located at 315Cambridge St., sits with cane in hand andTam-O-Shanter on his head. From a distance healmost resembles an Irish leprechaun...
Nearly two years ago TWA Flight 800 exploded and fell from the sky off of the coast of Long Island, N.Y. Investigators have since pointed to faulty wiring in the plane's fuel tank but have yet to find conclusive evidence of what caused the crash...
...biggest deal of any kind--also involving a bank. If you're just now planning to invest around this craze, hello, you're late. Very late. But all good manias last longer than they should, and this one probably will too. If you are not put off by sky-high valuations or a possible turn for the worse in the banking cycle, yes, you may yet crack open the vault with bank stocks...
...Some opponents of the system see the New World Order?s fingerprints all over it. ?We want to prevent the development of the big database in the sky with everyone?s prints in it,? said a spokeswoman for the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego. Banks, on the other hand, see dollar signs: They lose around $600 million in fraudulent checks every year. But most customers, like Taussig, simply see a breakdown in trust. Whether his case will give banks a big thumb in the eye is now in the hands of a Berkeley area judge...
Airlines like Northwest have routinely blown new competitors out of the sky with such tactics, on the theory that letting a low-cost start-up get started up is a bad strategy. Just look at what Southwest Airlines has done. But the tactic--matching low prices and adding more seats, even if it means absorbing losses--has virtually shut out new competition and kept fares high. "The most grievous government failure has been [not to] prosecute what appear to have been flagrant cases of predatory competition by major airlines against new competitors," says Alfred Kahn, the former Civil Aeronautics Board...