Word: delta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year my vacation excitement was squashed even before I even got home. I snuck away within minutes of my last section, speeding off to the Delta Shuttle at Logan. A friendly businessman seated next to me struck up a conversation. Correctly identifying me as a college student, he asked the usual questions, including whether I was happy to be done with my exams. He blanched when I told him about our raw deal. Was I going to study at home, during the holidays? Unlikely, I answered. Yet inevitably on the way home from the airport I was thinking about...
...King who ruled in the millennium before Moses, reads, "My priestly mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid." There is also the Egyptian legend of the god Horus, who is hidden in the Nile delta by his mother Isis to protect him from the wrath of his uncle Seth...
...Netscape religion must content themselves with the portly Navigator 4.5, which came out in October. The browser is arguably better than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 and includes a number of useful innovations, including Smart Browser, which is a kind of built-in 411. Don't know Delta Air Lines' address on the Web? Simply type "Delta Air Lines" into the browser and it'll take you to the easy-to-forget www.delta-air.com If the place you're looking for isn't in Smart Browser's database at Netcenter (Netscape's portal on the Web), Navigator automatically looks...
...Lankard wants to stop the building of a road across the Copper River Delta Basin, a rugged wetland where bald eagles still soar. "This is the last refuge," says Lankard. "Our way of life is gone if they build that road." His opponents had better prepare for a long battle...
...gift for anticipating where things were headed, and he probably understood the implications of the social and demographic currents that were sweeping the country--especially outside its cities--better than anyone else in business. That acumen hastened his rise from humble proprietor of a variety store in the little Delta cotton town of Newport, Ark., to largest retailer in the world and richest man in America...