Word: clock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Investment bankers, who stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars in advisory and underwriting fees no matter who comes out on top, had been hunting for months for a firm to derail the Time-Warner deal. Morgan Stanley gave its search for a spoiler the code name Project Clock. Merrill Lynch, another Davis adviser, assigned the name Space to its project. Citibank, for its part, stands to make $350 million in fees for putting together Paramount's war chest. At the same time, the bank manages 1.5 million shares of Time stock for its clients, on which they stand...
...invulnerable: it was only an agency of brutal power. If the student campaign failed, it at least succeeded in forging a historic new link between China's intellectual community and its masses. As an observer said earlier in the week, "It will be impossible to turn back the clock...
...story on America's violent youth remains in the magazine. The only element we lost was the arresting collage that Frances Jetter, an accomplished New York artist, was still finishing up at 2 o'clock Saturday morning. That's why, in a break with our tradition, we thought we'd show you the cover that almost made...
...morning. Similarly, most truck wrecks related to fatigue occur between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. "Shift workers classically have to perform when their brains are trying to put them to sleep," observes Dr. Charles Czeisler of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "They are fighting the internal clock." Many workers run on automatic pilot at that time; they execute routine tasks but are unable to process new information, like flashing red lights that signal danger...
Scientists are also exploring ways of resetting the body's clocks. Among the possible methods: using exercise, changing diet, or varying the amount of light or sleep. Even chemical intervention is being considered. Says neurobiologist Fred Turek of Northwestern University: "One of our goals is to find safe drugs that can speed up your clock or slow it down." Such techniques offer the possibility that one day, humans will be not just captives but masters of biological time...