Astronomers define a planet's sidereal year as the time the planet requires to make a complete orbit around the Sun. A definition more relevant to humans is the time required for the seasons to complete one cycle, that is, the time between...

A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year. (West African) A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year. (Dutch) As the years pass, they rob us of one thing after another. (Roman) It will be all the same a hundred years hence. (American)...

A year (from Old English gēr) is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. By extension, this can be applied to any planet: for example, a "Martian year" is the time in which Mars completes its own...

The Independent Magazine catering exclusively for Insurance Brokers and Advisers. The year 2001 has, in many respects, been the insurance industry's annus horibilis. Just consider some events of the past 12 months that come so readily to mind. Plumbing the depths were...

WARREN BOROSON The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-03-1996 THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS By WARREN BOROSON Date: 01-03-1996, Wednesday Section: BUSINESS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early Column: INVESTING ...

We started crafting “Sneak Preview” cover stories in September 1993. These glimpses into the automotive crystal ball have proved to be popular with our readers, so we have revisited the theme on an almost-yearly basis since.Along the way our spy photos typically have been accurate,...

In this month's cover story, we've taken a Porsche 911 to the track and compared it with an Audi (albeit the potent new RS 4). Strange as that may seem, it's not without precedent in R&T. Back in our April 1983 issue, Phil Hill and...