Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision is good news but it could have been much better news," said Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth yesterday afternoon. "It would have been better if President Clinton had promised to stop using the island once...
...Professor Coatsworth said yesterday that the protestors' action would someday yield a result that meets the demands of the Puerto Rican people...
...have been bused in to voice their support and enthusiasm for the Russian presence. In fact, they have come to complain. Russian troops--in particular the special assignment police unit, a heavily militarized unit with a reputation for excessive muscle--have been looting the place. "They stole my car yesterday," yells one man in the crowd. "The soldiers steal cattle, spare parts. They get drunk at night and shoot up the town. They harass you at checkpoints," says an engineer called Khasam, who now runs a photocopying service.Clean-shaven-- Chechen-Islamic political correctness demands full beards--and defiantly secular...
...Foot and a host of other sporting-goods stores. And so on, to the tune of more than $40 billion in around 130 companies (even Softbank executives have trouble counting) or by various estimates, about 10% of the companies that do business on the Web. And that was yesterday...
...Japan. To be sure, their ranks are puny by U.S. standards, but the movement seems to have taken hold. This fall 2,300 enthusiasts turned out for a meeting promoting the establishment of a NASDAQ over-the-counter market in Japan. Old business models are being tossed aside like yesterday's sashimi. The hero of a popular novel is the young president of a chain of bars. One of Japan's biggest growth industries is continuing education. And Tokyo's newspapers are filled with ads for night schools designed to turn salaried workers into entrepreneurs...