Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simple vision: mobile electronics. The first product, a car radio, gave the company its name, Motorola. For 70 years, from vacuum tubes to microchips, the firm has pursued that mission. And not without risk. For much of the past decade the company has been on a roller coaster, boosted by cell-phones, slammed by radios, skewered by foreign competition. But last week the firm announced earnings high enough to convince Wall Street that Motorola is back...
Mapped here under the big bold sky is America's Geography of Conspiracy. If Disney were to create a theme park celebrating American paranoia (Suspicionland U.S.A.), it might want to base the design on central Nevada. Tumbleweed stretches of empty highway roller-coaster over mountain ranges and down into salt flats, past ghost towns, federal prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides...
They would not be prepared, however, for what was to come in the next five months. A roller coaster simply could not describe the ride which the Crimson endured. For every step forward there would be a step back, and for every high there would be a devastating low. Still, with each setback the team remained hopeful, knowing that the postseason had the power to erase all regular-season lapses...
Following the Harvard men's lacrosse team this year was like riding the world's fastest roller coaster--just when you thought the Crimson had cleared its worst hair-raising drop, it slowly climbed up an even steeper hill and went screaming down into even more nauseating depths...
...roller coaster ride continued from there. Harvard had trouble mustering up any offense and the squad dropped six of its next seven games, all of them at home...