Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hayward and Howard Hughes, but it was Tracy "who was on to her," who gave up nothing for her and who consequently won her devotion. She stopped doing everything that irked him, even altered "qualities which I personally valued. It did not matter. I changed them." Despite making it safe for women to wear pants, she is not a have-it-all feminist on the subject of children and career. "You can't do both. It's a choice. If you want a career, which I did, why bring a child into the world who won't get the benefit...
...capital markets to a crashing halt." Last month, for instance, a minor computer failure at the Chicago Board Options Exchange shut down trading for about 90 minutes. Although the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has tested Globex to its satisfaction, it cannot guarantee that the system will be fail-safe. Concedes chairman Wendy Gramm: "We haven't thought of every contingency...
...good time to visit Chinatown is on a bright,i.e. safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoydim sum in one of the neighborhood's numerousChinese restaurants...
Others are more cautious. "If the gangs are maintaining the truce because, as some say, they want to be a part of the rebuilding of South Central L.A., that's a good sign," says Sergeant Wes McBride, a member of Operation Safe Streets (oss), the gang unit of the L.A. County sheriff's department. "But if it's so they don't have to cover their backs as much and can become major dealers of narcotics, that's something else...
...resolutions and embargoes, but nothing that stops the carnage. In Croatia, where a U.N. cease-fire is supposed to have ended the fighting, the historic city of Dubrovnik has just taken its most fearful artillery pounding in six months. Bosnia is terrorized. And the U.N. blue helmets head for safe ground...