Word: wave
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...Texas. But it is not simply that I had left my friends behind; during those years, everyone who had the means to were leaving Hong Kong in fear of the handover in 1997. Our group of friends gradually became scattered to all corners of the world by the immigration wave, induced by the fear and uncertainty of the impending change of sovereignty from Great Britain to China. Among the addresses I had scribbled on postcards and envelopes in those bygone letter-writing days were a half-dozen cities in England and Canada, plus Singapore and New Zealand, among others. Perhaps...
...next e-commerce wave is hurtling down on the Web. It's called the e-market; it's coming soon to an industrial-era sector near you, and Ma may turn out to be its avatar. "Moses' intellect operates on a plane well above mere mortals'," says Joel Friedman, a managing partner at Andersen Consulting, which last month agreed to develop and sell e-market software and services with BizBots. "And we think he might have built a better mousetrap...
Tour operators have taken a different tack. An increasingly contentious wave of mergers and takeovers since 1997 has left 80% of the British package-holiday business in the hands of just four companies. Hotels started an era of frenetic consolidation slightly earlier. In 1997-98 more than $25 billion worth of property changed hands, including the purchase of Inter-Continental by Bass Hotels & Resorts and Marriott's buyout of Renaissance...
...course, the best way to silence a noisy presidential underdog is to throw him a bone. George W. Bush has ventured far enough out of smile-and-wave mode to make some noises along McConnell's line ? make a CPI adjustment to the current hard-money limits and require full disclosure of contributors. "If a grand compromise is made," says Carney, "that could be the tradeoff: a soft-money ban in exchange for more hard money." That's still a long way from "one man, one vote" ? the rich will still get all the access when their man wins...
Summer in New York City, 1977. A record heat wave, a Yankee pennant drive, a blackout and a looting spree. For the tabloids and news shows, and for six unlucky people who died at the business end of his .44, that scalding season belonged...