Word: spins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Addressing the allegation of "spin-control," Epps, who had also not yet been able to read the book, said he believes because of the "extraordinary amount of press attention during that period," Harvard was "handicapped because we follow strictly the rules of privacy and could not discuss certain student circumstances. It would be against federal...
...true of nearly all relevant institutions--is that virtually any market decline would be tolerable so long as it was orderly. The ability to take all calls and get all trades done is paramount. It helps avoid panic, which leads to irrational selling and a stock-market death spin. Says William Johnston, president of the N.Y.S.E.: "We see ourselves as a utility. Our job is to supply enough power at peak times to keep every light burning." Hence the Big Board's vast trading capacity, built at a cost of $1 billion since...
...even as NASA was giving the go-ahead for Foale to start his training for this unanticipated job, another disaster struck. Someone--according to one report, Tsibliyev--pulled the wrong plug on an onboard computer, sending Mir into a spin and robbing it of power once again. Foale greeted this latest setback with the same low-key we-can-handle-it attitude that Americans have learned to expect from their astronauts. Yet as he and his comrades inched their way through a dark, cold, lifeless Mir for the second time in a month, no one could have blamed Foale...
...keep the Russians engaged in a high-profile cooperative project. But a series of mishaps on the creaky, 11-year-old Mir over the past six months has raised questions about the station's safety, threatening to send space cooperation into what may turn out to be an uncontrolled spin of its own. Some U.S. legislators, reflecting widespread public exasperation, want NASA to consider bringing Foale home next month, rather than letting him complete his scheduled four-month stint. And they want the agency to re-evaluate whether astronaut Wendy Lawrence, due to replace Foale in September, should...
...TIME's Miami Bureau Chief Tammerlin Drummond reports that despite reported sightings of Cunanan in the vicinity of the houseboat as early as last weekend, police, in repeated sweeps, were luckless. At an afternoon press conference, FBI Special Agent Paul Philip tried to give the non-capture a positive spin. "We were trying to make it difficult for him to get away. His picture was everywhere, his name was everywhere. I think it worked. He managed to get 40 blocks in all this time. That's pretty good." Meanwhile, it sounds like that caretaker will get stiffed...