Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hometown), financially and socially, was fundamental to gaining a new perspective on personal evolution. It was both refreshing and daunting to realize that I ate, lived and earned money all by my own effort. Yes, there were school and family safety nets involved, but the opportunity to spread my wings and falter along the way was mine...
...crash years before it actually does. If I'm right, this one did too," says Arthur Wolk, an aviation attorney who represents plaintiffs in airline crashes. "There have been fleetwide problems in wiring. If I were an investigator, I'd be looking for fire in the wiring bundle, which spread to the cockpit or to a critical flight control." Such speculation is perhaps inspired by the conclusion of the investigation into the crash of TWA 800 near Long Island on July 17, 1996. That disaster's likely cause: exhaust heat from the Boeing 747's air conditioners transformed its fuel...
Like American business generally, Harnischfeger entered this turmoil strong and lean. Well-managed with a skilled and productive work force, it had prospered from the past decade's explosive growth in global freedom and commerce. But then came the currency crisis that began in Thailand in July 1997 and spread like a contagion through the rest of Asia--and last month to Russia and last week to Latin America, hammering down local currencies and slashing demand for U.S. exports. Cheaper Asian exports began grabbing more and more domestic business away from U.S. companies and sliced into their earnings. That trend...
...next day. And the next day, losing ground for the seventh trading day out of the previous eight and posting a 411-point, or 5%, setback for the week. Despite the release last week of fresh reports chronicling persistent low unemployment and rising orders for factory goods, anxiety spread from the stock market to the "real" economy of jobs and paychecks. The market drop served as a reminder--one about as subtle as a poke in the eye--that in today's global economy, not even a healthy U.S. can quarantine its factories and offices and markets from the illnesses...
...continue unabated regardless of leadership or official policy. That myth was perfected in Japan, where the entire ruling system was set up to avoid the necessity of any single person's taking responsibility for anything. The country's clan politics worked well enough when there were sufficient spoils to spread around. But when trouble loomed, there was no mechanism to produce a leader capable of making difficult decisions in the national interest...