Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care. "It would be nice," he says of being liked, "but it's better to do the right thing, prove the city is manageable, so no one can ever say it isn't again." He's rightly criticized for tolerating police excesses, but with crime down and jobs up, Wall Street gushing and Times Square as clean as Fantasyland, he gets away with it. Because of the Catch-22 of First Ladies, Hillary doesn't have much of a record to tout. She can't take credit for exercising the power she's not supposed to have...
...partners chip in more money, Lockheed Martin announced Thursday it wouldn?t be upping its 1 percent investment any time soon. Iridium will miss its next interest payment to bondholders, and its bankers have given it until August 11 to come up with a new business plan. The Wall Street Journal has nicknamed the company "Icarus." What went wrong? TIME business writer Karl Taro Greenfeld says Iridium showed up at the telecom party a little too early...
...Asian crisis may be over," he says, "but the Latin American one isn?t. Greenspan doesn?t want it erupting and hurting the U.S." Funny thing ? those same fears, plus some standard nail-biting over earnings reports, are muting what might have been a big inflation celebration on Wall Street. Which makes Greenspan?s laissez-faire that much easier to defend...
...luminous outdoor amphitheater in the middle of a forest in eastern Berlin, Springsteen performed two shows that put a lie to the notion that 49-going-on-50 is too old to rock 'n' roll. The setting was soaked with history. Back in 1988, barely 18 months before the Wall came down, Springsteen and the band played one of the largest and most dramatic rock concerts ever. When Springsteen introduced Bob Dylan's Chimes of Freedom in what was then the communist German Democratic Republic, he told the audience, "I want to tell you, I'm not here...
Outside the pavilion, Hamilton has erected a 90-ft. wall of glass and steel that blocks the prospect of the building from afar. Up close, looking through the glass, the building seems to wobble and melt, blurred and distorted...