Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME's China watchers had been planning a special report on the legacy of Deng Xiaoping for months, but it wasn't until 10 p.m. Wednesday--early morning in the U.S.--that Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz got a tip that China's ailing leader might be dead. As FlorCruz raced to the TIME bureau, driving past Tiananmen Square and the residences of the top Communist Party officials, he could tell something was amiss; police at each intersection were waving motorists to the side so that black cars with flashing red lights could enter Zhongnanhai, the party headquarters. Within hours...
Harvard gave itself a chance to get something out of the game with 2:47 to go, as Allman scored his second of the night on a tip from a sharp-angle Halfnight shot. But Jean-Francois Houle flipped in an open-net goal with only a minute to go, spoiling the Crimson's late hopes for a victory...
...Crimson will first tip off against Cornell (10-10 overall, 5-3 Ivy) tonight at 6 p.m. and then face Columbia (4-16, 1-7) tomorrow night...
...want a hot investment tip? Better make that TIPS, the acronym for a new class of U.S. government bond that went on sale last week--and quickly turned into the Treasury Department's version of Tickle-Me Elmo. The new wonder bonds, known as Treasury Inflation Protection Securities, were snapped up by institutional investors such as insurance companies and pension funds, which lugged $37 billion to the table, even though only $7 billion worth of the 10-year notes were actually up for sale...
...asking, "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" Some doubted it. Others thought his stalker was a KGB agent. Still others, notably the band R.E.M., which had a hit with What's the Frequency, Kenneth?, saw the incident as a cry of alienation. The New York Daily News, working on a tip from a psychiatrist, suggested that the assailant was William Tager, a disturbed man who believed the media were beaming messages at him. If so, Rather has reason to be thankful. Tager is in prison for a 1994 shooting of an NBC stagehand...