Word: spectacular
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...courtship lasted more than two years and survived a spectacular last- minute challenge from a jealous suitor. But last week the long-awaited corporate marriage finally took place. The result: Time Warner Inc., the world's largest information and entertainment company. The new giant, with 35,000 employees and $10 billion in revenues this year, will be a global contender in the fields of magazines, books, music, movies, TV programs and cable...
...also mysterious about her secret fry-bread recipe, which includes the root vegetable tinpsila. But on only two days in the past ten years has no one come to call at the WoodenKnife. "Some local people have a prejudice against Indian food," she notes dryly, standing against the spectacular Badlands moonscape that she describes as "my million-dollar view." She adds, "Not everybody, of course. But they think Indian food has puppies in it or something...
...plan may provide Mexico with about $4 billion in loan reductions, $6 billion in interest-rate reductions and $2.5 billion in new credits. That is much less than the 55% debt relief, or $29.7 billion, that Mexico originally asked for. Under the new agreement, "we shall not see spectacular results from night to morning," Salinas acknowledged in his broadcast. But the agreement produced an almost immediate benefit in restoring some confidence in Mexico's financial stability. Domestic interest rates, which had risen to 56% this year, have fallen 20 percentage points in the past three weeks because financiers anticipated...
...spectacular souffle of politics, parades and visual extravaganzas -- all steeped in historical symbolism, spiced with controversy and served up to the world with characteristic elan. France threw itself a revolutionary birthday party last week, and the world joined in the celebration, as President Francois Mitterrand recalled the glory of 1789 as the "birth of the modern...
...least 76 people were killed, and up to 43 others were missing and believed dead in Wednesday's spectacular crash of a DC-10 jumbo...