Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June, from $9.8 billion the previous month. Both sides of the balance sheet showed that overseas producers were once again grabbing a larger share of the market. U.S. exports, which had been rising robustly thanks to the downsized dollar, slumped 2.4%, to $26.8 billion. Imports arrived in a fresh wave, rising 5.7%, to $39.4 billion...
...thing is certain: the wave of consolidation in the financial industry is far from over. Competition is growing both among U.S. bankers and with foreign institutions. "There won't be 14,000 banks and 3,000 thrift institutions forever," says Robert Abboud, the former First Chicago president who last year became head of Houston's failing First City as part of a federal rescue. But not even a tough survivor like Abboud knows which banks will stay and which will...
...method of propulsion is basically similar in the two systems. In both cases the train effectively rides on an electromagnetic wave. Alternating the current in a set of magnets in the guideway changes their polarity and thus the way they interact with the magnets on the train. As a result, the train is alternately pushed and pulled along. Raising the frequency of the current speeds up the movement. Says Kenji Fujie, chief engineer of JR's maglev laboratory: "We can run it beyond 1,000 k.p.h. ((620 m.p.h.)), theoretically...
This goofy gesture, which America's most criminally pretty actress flashes smack in the middle of Jonathan Demme's high, wild and handsome comedy Married to the Mob, is no wink to the cognoscenti. Nor is it the white flag that a leading actress must eventually wave to the cartoon figures -- the Mafia dons and prima donnas -- scampering around her. It is the distress signal of a young woman, once cocooned in marriage, who now sees herself as an adolescent spilling confidences over a two-straw chocolate soda...
...white- collar crime wave is spurring a cleanup operation. -- How to rob * banks without a gun. -- Going after the trade...