Word: takings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most part, Americans take to the streets only to express their political views when they believe the electoral system isn't responding to their concerns. And it's hardly surprising that those on the streets in Seattle may doubt the effectiveness of taking up their grievances at the polls in an electoral system totally beholden to the millions of dollars of corporate "soft money" that greases the wheels of both parties. Long after the ink has dried on the last signature of the last trade deal in Seattle, the aftershocks of the battle for its streets may reverberate in American...
...contemporary musical genres industrial is by far the most religious--the industrial sound tries to sound like Satan because it believes the machine is evil. Skinny Puppy were romantics finding refuge in the grotesque; grinding on about God and man so earnestly that one fears people might take them seriously. All this in mind, The Singles Collect offers a few good dance tunes, and both albums are good for a deadly serious power-walking session, full of strong beats and an overweening sense of destiny. Singles: C+ B-Sides...
While Gyorffy, Taylor, and Schutte will be favored to win their events again, the Crimson will need improved performance from the other veterans and help from a talented freshman class in order to take home the title...
...global superpower that can't seem to upgrade its image; the other was considered a upscale comer in the same market, but couldn't seem to take off. So on Wednesday McDonald's ate up Boston Chicken, Inc., the white-hot IPO of 1995 that turned out to be one of the all-time turkeys (and a couple of years ago changed the name of its outlets to Boston Market). The hope is that the world's largest restaurant chain can corner the high end of the fast-food market, while allowing the upstart to benefit from a global marketing...
...thought of giving birth is daunting enough without the prospect of major surgery. Well, expectant moms can take heart in recent research pointing toward an overall decline in use of the dreaded C-section. A federal study released Thursday found that the percent of C-sections fell from 22.8 percent in 1989 to 20.7 percent in 1996. That drop followed national concern that too many caesareans were being performed, especially for mothers giving birth again after an earlier C-section. However, there was a slight increase in the procedure in 1997 following research that found a risk to mothers delivering...