Word: waits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long until Y2K, even for those who can't wait, but the projected Dark Age has already revealed at least one bright spot. At Safe-Trek, the Bozeman survival store Rudy is associated with, demand for Y2K foodstuffs is so great that management has turned its on-site shooting range into a canning plant. Guns into blueberries, in other words. "I think of myself as being a good scout," Rudy cheerfully reflects. "It used to be helping little old ladies across the street. Now it's helping little old ladies get their food reserves...
...have people from training and job agencies who come and sit in our office all day and wait for clients," Younker adds. "We offer daycare vouchers for anyone working or in training...
...long wait for Japan's first Mars mission, but timing is everything in space. "Flying from any cosmic point A to any cosmic point B is like leading ducks when you're hunting," says TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, coauthor of the book "Apollo 13." "You can't aim for where a planet is, you have to aim for where it's going to be." With a Martian year lasting roughly two of our years, missing the rendezvous means you have a while to wait before the motion of the two bodies coincides again. "If an error of one degree...
...hires eager to sock money away in a 401(k) plan, the wait may be over. Thanks to a change in tax regulations taking effect this month, companies no longer have a financial incentive to make new employees wait up to a year before becoming eligible for these tax-deferred savings plans. Some 70% of firms impose a waiting period; ask your new boss about reaping the benefits...
Kosovo?s warriors may not wait out the winter. The capture of eight Serb soldiers by ethnic Albanian fighters is threatening to end the cease-fire that stopped U.S. air strikes against the Serbs last year: Even as Serb forces gathered for an attack and Western observers scrambled to mediate Monday, guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) said they would release the soldiers only as part of a prisoner exchange. ?An exchange would legitimize the KLA as a political fighting force,? says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. ?For the same reason, the Serbs can?t make a deal...