Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Square was waking up to a grey sky on a sleepy Sunday morning, the Tasty slowly wound down...
This Saturday was Homecoming for Dartmouth. The evening before, a Promethean bonfire lit the cold sky amidst shouts of "Harvard sucks" and "No mercy...
...weeks before the 1996 election, Democrat Bill Yellowtail was in a neck-and-neck race for Montana's only House seat when a TV ad swooped out of the Big Sky. "Who is Bill Yellowtail?" it opened. "He preaches family values, but he took a swing at his wife." Yellowtail lost. A year later he's still trying to figure out who really took a swing at him. The ad's sponsor was a nonprofit group with a do-gooder name, Citizens for Reform. But the deeper mystery was how the organization knew to air a domestic incident more than...
Clearly, American companies and global powerhouses elsewhere won't be doing as much business in Asia in coming quarters. And that is precisely why Asia's problems are a world event. It means big companies won't make as much money as their sky-high stock prices demand. And that gets to the heart of the problem. It's not so much that companies can't thrive without exports to Asia; it's that ebullient investors have put such absurdly high prices on stocks that even a minor disappointment in earnings will let out a lot of air. Consider Citicorp...
...yesterday, about 20 protesters gathered at a street corner one block away from the Main Building, for a quiet demonstration against China's policies towards Tibet. Organized by several Tibetan groups, the mini-rally attracted nearly as many reporters as protesters. But as the sun dropped in the sky by late afternoon, more and more people joined the swelling crowd...