Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowhere is this creeping globalism more striking than in high-definition television. Six months ago, American electronics manufacturers were using apocalyptic terms to describe the race to build tomorrow's TV sets, calling it a life-and-death struggle for economic survival. But plans for a coordinated U.S. effort quickly got bogged down in arguments over technical standards...
...certainly hope so." Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach, one of the few members of the House Banking Committee who does not accept contributions from political action committees, says that if the allegations against him are true, Keating is "a financiopath of obscene proportions -- the Rev. Jim Bakker of American commerce...
...Atchison was a managing partner of Arthur Young & Co., the accounting firm that audited Lincoln. Under Atchison's direction, the thrift got a clean bill of health. Later Atchison took a $930,000-a-year job as a vice president with Lincoln's parent company, American Continental Corp. Like his boss, Atchison took the Fifth before the committee several weeks...
After announcing Moawad's murder on television in a voice breaking with emotion, Prime Minister Selim Hoss, an American-trained economist who has survived several assassination attempts, worked with Hussein Husseini, the speaker of the parliament, to reconvene the legislature and select a President. "Each one of us is Rene Moawad," said Husseini. "We all have the absolute duty to pursue the peace process until the salvation of the country...
...costly that many would have been forced to close their doors. Both sides thought the case was the one this term most likely to give the court an opportunity to repeal Roe. But after weeks of negotiation, a settlement was announced last week between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union, which was representing a doctor who had challenged the rules. The state dropped the equipment requirements while retaining its right to inspect clinics and enforce health and safety rules...