Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...semiconductor business is more volatile than Rockwell's other lines, says Davis; its investment needs are different, and the way employees are paid and promoted is different. Also, most of its business is in California, while Rockwell's other plants and customers are mainly in the Midwest. After the split-up last December, Rockwell began moving its corporate headquarters from Costa Mesa, Calif., to Milwaukee, Wis. It has also moved back into the black. For fiscal 1999, Davis predicts a profit of $570 million on revenues of $7 billion...
...which she expects within the next two weeks, before she makes up her mind. While Bush has so much of the country's attention, will he prove Ford wrong and lead us someplace instead of blowing $60 million on slick ads and a fog machine of road-tested, split-the-difference platitudes? He could lead, not follow, and woo the Christian right by bringing them along, not just kneeling down with them...
With half of all marriages ending in divorce, many children no longer have healthy relationships at home to serve as models. Spurred on by research showing that couples who master certain skills--like conflict resolution and active listening--are less likely to split up, advocates of marriage classes contend that giving teens these tools early could eventually curb the divorce rate. Or at least dissuade sweethearts from marrying rashly. Ranging from a few weeks to a semester, the courses attract both singles and dating couples. Says author Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director of Rutgers University's National Marriage Project...
Users looking for more practical applications might wait for later versions of Cye. It cannot manage stairs, so forget about its answering the door if you live in a split-level home. And while you can put Cye down in a room and automatically set up a zigzagging vacuum path, it's not recommended since the optional vacuum tends to get fouled in its electric cord. A cordless model is in the works. Likewise, a camera is being considered, which would make navigating--and Stein harassment--that much simpler...
...pair of scissors" or, as Taylor put it, "chicken feathers to tar." Yet she admired and studied his skills at Shakespeare, poetry and literature, and he loved her ability to keep up with him--in everything. But booze, gross amounts of it, did in the marriage. In 1973 they split. Miserable apart, they remarried in 1975, only to break up in four months...