Word: everly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...desperation. With the same diary format, complete with alcohol and cigarette logs, and the same wacky circle of friends, Bridget seems to be living her own private Groundhog Day, unable to learn from her mistakes, move forward or pull herself together the tiniest bit. The plot--and is there ever a plot--is driven by her on-again, off-again romance with Mark Darcy. The fact that the reader is so much smarter and more observant than Bridget is, this time round, irritating rather than suspenseful...
...convinces the 14 emigres involved that successful farming and the contemplative life are incompatible. Leaving her husband behind to settle the debts, Zalezowska goes to San Francisco, polishes up her English and makes a triumphant American stage debut. Soon she is more famous in her adopted land than she ever was in Poland...
...used to do est. What's the longest you've ever held...
...increasingly denominated in euros rather than in marks, francs or pesetas. Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of a major consolidation--the $198 billion proposed takeover of German mobile-phone provider Mannesmann by British giant Vodafone AirTouch will surpass the AOL-Time Warner/deal as the largest merger ever. The most auspicious development of the past year, given Europe's historic fragmentation along national lines, is the cross-border merger. Aventis is the new, conspicuously neutral name for what used to be Germany's Hoechst and France's Rhone-Poulenc. Nor are Europeans confining their targets...
...Gonzalena's Chinaco, made of 100% blue agave. These use nearly twice the fermented agave juice necessary to mix cheaper brands. "What is happening today is a product of what happened in 1991 and 1992," says Javier Arroyo Chavez, president of Mexico's Tequila Regulatory Commission. "No one then ever imagined that the tequila industry would go on to its present success...