Word: vanished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This largely undocumented knowledge base is humanity's lifeline to a time when people accepted nature's authority and learned through trial, error and observation. But the world's tribes are dying out or being absorbed into modern civilization. As they vanish, so does their irreplaceable knowledge...
While the notion of a social life tends to vanish quickly, I was able to find refuge in two of my most favorite activities, singing and teaching. I joined the Harvard Glee Club my first year and have not regretted a minute of my association with the group. Rehearsals are great therapy, and traveling to Europe, Canada and other parts of the U.S. made my work much more palatable...
...nearby Rhode Island, Gregory Schmellick, 49, is also struggling to get back on his feet. Schmellick was laid off in June as vice president of Resource Conservation Systems, an installer of energy-saving equipment that saw its orders vanish when ailing utilities canceled rebate programs aimed at encouraging conservation. Schmellick now wants to change careers. But, he says, "every industry is sitting on the fence. Demands for services are not picking up. People are afraid to venture out because they don't know if another Hurricane Bob is coming through. They are hunkered down and waiting...
...data on prices and market activity to oil traders, flopped after a year. Earlier this year, Citi pulled the plug on a computerized information service aimed at grocery shoppers. Knight-Ridder lost about $50 million in a failed home-shopping service. And in its ambitious effort to make paper vanish, Wang Laboratories itself almost disappeared when it bet the ranch on manufacturing expensive document-scanning and imaging systems that nobody wanted. Says David Goulden, a Wang vice president: "The market's been a disappointment...
...costs through a series of deep cutbacks. The banks plan to pare 6,200 jobs, or nearly 15% of their combined work force, and shut 70 of their 436 branches in the New York City area. Manufacturers Hanover, which financed construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, will see its name vanish into corporate history. Nonetheless, Manufacturers chairman John McGillicuddy, 60, will head the merged company until 1994, when Chemical chief Walter Shipley, 55, will succeed...