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...master of this brightly colored universe -- or at least I'm supposed to be. By pointing my index finger and cocking my thumb, I can swoop down among the skyscrapers. I can wheel by the Space Needle, close enough to hear the clatter of silverware in its restaurant. I can dive beneath the deep- blue surface of the sound, go swimming with the whale and bask in the staccato chatter of its birdlike mating call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: (Mis)Adventures In Cyberspace | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...ailing U.S. companies collapse beneath the debt they assumed in the Roaring Eighties, a new breed of vultures has begun to swoop down on the corporate carcasses. The predators include sharp-eyed lawyers, investment bankers and bargain hunters who have parlayed the business of profiting from failure into Wall Street's hottest growth industry. Ironically, many of the same financiers who loaded companies down with debt are now cashing in on the overleveraged firms' troubles. Not since merger madness first hit corporate America in the mid-'80s has so lucrative a financial field opened up so swiftly. Says Robert Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Profits Of Doom | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

When bats swoop low in the glooming night, and street lamps cast pale glimmers on the sidewalks, it is the hour of the Tasty...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Eating Hot Dogs at the Midnight Hour | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

This "quick fix" option has some attractive features. In one fell swoop Harvard acquires a high-profile woman or minority professor who will take a conspicuous place in the elite senior faculty...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: The Home-Grown Solution | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

While Felix Gallardo was being seized in the western state of Jalisco, Mexican army troops were used to swoop down on his hometown of Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, and arrested every police officer on the force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mexican Drug Pipeline Leader Arrested | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

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