Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hands. In most countries, there are few restrictions on encryption's use, manufacture or sale. RSA Inc., which makes a widely-used encryption engine, has opened an Australian subsidiary which can sell its technology world-wide. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) has estimated that U.S. companies are forced to stand by and lose $60 billion a year of revenues as foreign competitors, unbound by export restrictions, sell to anyone who will...
Aside from Greenspan's personality, I also question the selection of an economic policymaker, whose popularity is fickle and whose accomplishments, like those of most politicians, are not likely to stand the test of time. Would an economist have been selected 10 years ago, shortly after Black Monday and on the eve of a major recession? I doubt it. By contrast, Ralph Ellison (Commencement speaker in 1974) will always be a great novelist, Oscar Arias (speaker in 1988) will always be a crusader for peace and Colin Powell (speaker in 1993) will always be a military hero...
...suppose Pat would argue that, as things stand, a lot of the money parents spend on getting kids into college is diverted to businesses--SAT cram courses, for instance, and expensive prep schools--that are clustered around the admissions process, like motels and fast-food joints bellying up to the edge of Disney World. Why not have the money go directly to the college...
DIED. GARY MORTON, 74, film and TV producer and husband of the late Lucille Ball; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Morton was a popular stand-up comic when he met Ball on a blind date. He went on to produce The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, among others. The couple were married nearly 28 years...
...crimes Arkan and his men are believed to have committed in Croatia and Bosnia are chilling. In August 1991 his troops cut their teeth by driving civilian Croats from the city of Vukovar, looting and burning along the way. Arkan and his men stand accused of having tortured, mutilated and killed Muslims in the northeast Bosnian town of Bijeljina in April 1992. And in Zvornik that same month, his troops cleared the town of Muslims, extorting money from civilians for safe passage out of the hell they had created...