Word: slides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been dealing with the possible end of our current good-times era by talking their Wall Street buddies down from the window ledges, or by convincing Mom & Dad that it wasn't so bad to throw a big lump of cash into the stock market the day before the slide began, and would they please shut off the Mercedes and come out of the garage, I have taken a different mindset. I have been busy contemplating the social fallout from the demise of the present boom period, wondering how all this will affect the current generation of go-getters...
...developing other new tools, such as a digital slide carousel and a quiz maker, that would make it easy for teaching staff unfamiliar with computers to create a quiz that would be administered, timed and graded electronically...
...things seem to be happening way too fast in the world economy. Countries no longer slide into recession; they plunge headfirst over the cliff, faster than a fund manager can hit the redial button on his phone. Now that Russia's finances have imploded, the worriers are turning their attention to the other onetime communist colossus grappling with economic reform: China. Since the once vaunted "Asian miracle" has taken on the aura of a curse, a lot of investors and governments are asking if the People's Republic of China will be the next to fall...
...Golf has no Asian exposure. We operate more than 100 stand-alone golf driving ranges, exclusively in the U.S. and Canada. Perhaps the fact that the firm was founded by two highly successful Asian Americans--Dominic Chang and Krishnan Thampi--somehow confused you. Family Golf's recent share-price slide has more to do with the overall weakness in the small-capitalization market than the economic Asian flu. JEFFREY C. KEY, Chief Financial Officer Family Golf Centers Inc. Melville...
Even the secondary, which lost safety Jeff Compas to graduation, has four one-time starters returning. Senior Derek Yankoff, who played corner last year, will slide over to free safety, and junior Kane Waller will move into Yankoff's corner spot. Senior corner Glenn Jackson led the team with six interceptions last year, and Aron Natale is an effective two-way defender...