Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-distance service, and it closely follows U S West's $2.5 billion investment in media conglomerate Time Warner. Although the merger is praised by consumer groups because it could lead to lower phone rates and innovative products, many analysts predict that it will ring up even more industry turmoil as it reduces the boundaries separating long-distance and local telephone service. It will also bring AT&T into close competition with local telephone carriers, including the seven former Bell System companies, collectively known as the Baby Bells...
Smith has sexual and material lures thrown at him from all sides, but far more troubling is the temptation to just give up in the face of an ingenious and seemingly unbeatable foe. Snipes portrays Smith's turmoil, confusion and anger in a manner which is constantly believable and consistently sympathetic...
...hours after the new study linking homosexuality with heredity was released, I was asked several times if I possessed psychic powers. The play I wrote, The Twilight of the Golds, is the story of a family thrown into turmoil when a pregnant woman is told through genetic testing that her fetus will most likely be homosexual. "It's like The China Syndrome and Three Mile Island," people said. "How did you know to write about this a year and a half...
Business news is not very good these days. Though the U.S. is technically in its 28th straight month of growth, big airlines are struggling, the computer industry is in the midst of a protracted shakeout, and drugmakers are in turmoil. Last week even Procter & Gamble, the nation's leading household- and personal-products company, announced it will close 30 plants and eliminate 13,000 jobs in an effort to meet the prices of discount and private-label competitors. In times like these, they used to say that a sneeze by the American economy gave Detroit a bout...
...years since then, Mays and the Twiggs have been battling for Kimberly's affections. In a settlement in 1989, the Twiggs agreed not to seek custody, in exchange for visitation rights. But Mays put a halt to them after only five visits, saying they were causing too much emotional turmoil. The Twiggs resumed their fight for custody, but lost in state court. Undaunted, they are now suing for visitation rights...