Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investment world has been turned upside down: Merrill Lynch, bastion of full-service, full-fee brokerage, is getting into the discount game; Charles Schwab, the original no-frills discounter, now charges some of the highest commissions online and offers a full menu of advice. Meanwhile, major exchanges are moving toward evening hours so day traders have more time to lose their money. This special market for insomniacs will eventually go 24 hours, all but ending the family meal and any shot at a good night's sleep...
...about Kosovo. You ask, What were the alternatives to the bombing [KOSOVO CRISIS, May 17]? Well, only a few months back, the West could have warned Yugoslavia that it would not allow, much less condone, any further dismemberment of the country. It could have helped Yugoslavia on its path toward democracy and European integration. I suppose we are pounding Yugoslavia back to the Stone Age simply because Serb President Slobodan Milosevic allowed himself to be provoked by rebels...
...state legislature in February, the Eagles and Phillies will soon get new stadiums. Across the state in Pittsburgh, where the public schools anticipate a $30 million shortfall in the next budget, the Pirates and Steelers will also get new homes, with the state kicking in $160 million toward the cost...
...instincts were anchored to the continent of North America, as though an invisible cord still tied me to its coasts. In an emergency--if the ice-filled clouds had merged, if oil pressure had begun to drop, if a cylinder had started missing--I would have turned back toward America and home. Now, my anchor is in Europe: on a continent I've never seen... Now, I'll never think of turning back...
...months, students have watched as Princeton, Yale, Stanford and MIT sweetened the financial aid pot. For months, we wondered when Harvard would do the same. Now the College has both met and exceeded our expectations by allocating $9 million more toward financial...