Word: volcanoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firmament, the company's stock has slipped 10% in the past month. The good news is that Disney remains the world's most beloved entertainment brand name--a kind of profitability triple threat that uses movies, theme parks and merchandise to turn every hit into a volcano of revenues. But some analysts are worried that its fabled pre-eminence in the animation arena has eroded since its Lion King days and that its theme parks face newly ferocious rivals and, perhaps as a result, deliver lower profit margins than they once did. ABC, snapped up by Eisner back...
...wonder that Anne Heche is slightly fidgety, her hands nervously shuttling one Camel cigarette after another to her lips? The 29-year-old actress had been on Hollywood's fast track, landing roles opposite stars like Johnny Depp and Al Pacino (Donnie Brasco), Tommy Lee Jones (Volcano) and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog). Then last year--just as she was tapped to share onscreen kisses with Ford in Disney's romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights--she met and fell in love with Ellen DeGeneres, TV's first openly gay leading actress. Overnight, the couple, showing...
...Clinton officials are now considering what action to take if Suharto fails to implement key aspects of the bailout plan. Tough love may be necessary, but it's a difficult call when this mainstay of U.S. Asia policy sits atop a volcano of social unrest...
...bring even greater economic hardship to a nation already in the grip of mounting social turmoil. President Clinton on Friday called Suharto -- for the second time this month -- to urge him to comply with IMF requirements for the $43 billion bailout of Indonesia. "Suharto is sitting on a political volcano," says Van Voorst, "which is why it's not easy for the IMF to simply pull the plug on its promised bailout. The collapse of Indonesia's economy could have disastrous implications throughout the region and internationally." And with unemployment spiraling and almost daily riots over price increases, even...
...Washington as needed, plus about 20 support staff and scores of federal agents who are at his disposal. Even by the standards of Washington, a place accustomed to big, churning investigations, that's a mean machine. And in a place as small as Little Rock, it's like a volcano has popped up in the middle of town. During the 3 1/2 years of Starr's Whitewater probe, hundreds of people there have dealt with Starr through criminal trials, testimony at the downtown federal courthouse--where critics of the independent counsel have taken to calling the grand jury room...