Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experts believe the nukes are under tight control so far, yet there are doubters. While it's unlikely that a military commander would see any benefit in launching one, there are other possibilities. A rogue general might try some nuclear blackmail for a big payoff. Or a nuclear unit, unpaid for months, might decide to quietly sell off something for a profit. It wouldn't have to be one of the closely guarded strategic weapons either. There are thousands of small ones and tons of fissile material lying around. Such nightmares alone would encourage Clinton and the West to stay...
...supplant the Princess of Wales in the hearts of the people or on the front pages of the tabloids. But the death of the princess appears to have done the unexpected: it has not only reinvigorated the monarchy itself but has also burnished the picture of an intimate family unit--Charles, William and Harry, with increasingly regular appearances by Charles' longtime lover, Camilla Parker Bowles--that appears to be affectionate, complex, fun-loving and modern, the very territory the princess had staked out for herself. Says Harold Brooks-Baker, the publishing director of Burke's Peerage, a guide...
...MERCEDES The gendarmes' specialized research unit will hand over its technical report on the Mercedes in late September, and sources close to the investigation indicate that they have found no major problems. That is surprising, because certain items in the dossier, and the analysis of outside experts, point to some potentially serious malfunctions...
...price-earnings ratio, or P/E (based on expected earnings), is 21--down from 23 in July but still much higher than the previous peak of 19 in 1991, according to earnings tracker First Call. Meanwhile, market leaders still sport bubble-like P/Es: Coca-Cola, where unit sales are growing about 8% a year, has a P/E of 51. Microsoft's is 63; Cisco Systems', 78. High-flying Internet stocks have no P/E because they have no "E." Yahoo, the Net-search directory, trades at 73 times revenue. The comparable multiple for Coke...
Celebrity bonds are a natural extension of the $200 billion asset-backed securities market. It began with home mortgages in the '80s, when lenders began bundling thousands of mortgages into a single unit that then issued bonds and used the steady stream of mortgage payments to pay interest. Wall Street now "securitizes" everything from credit-card receivables to anticipated beer sales at Britain's Punch Taverns...