Word: april
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Capone: April 15 AGAIN...
...When the Beijing students started gathering at Tiananmen that April, Hong Kong was galvanized. Local stars held fund-raising concerts and closed them with the song "We Love Freedom." News appeared incessantly across all media. Huge marches and rallies were held. "Eastern Europe is changing," I overheard someone telling my mother at the time. "When will China...
...overextended American consumer is tapped out. The "green shoots" crowd - those believing global recovery is nigh - drew special encouragement from a 2.2% rebound in real U.S. consumer expenditure in the first quarter of 2009. That encouragement is about to be dashed. Outright contractions in retail sales in March and April point to a renewed decline of at least 1% in real consumption in the current quarter...
This all adds up to a sense of rising crisis. "Don't lead us back to war," beseeched the country's biggest newspaper, The Nation, in a front-page editorial on April 10. The same month Annan warned of a dangerous "impasse." On May 10, former U.S. ambassador to Kenya and new Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, made talks in Nairobi with Kibaki and Odinga the focus of his first trip to the continent since his appointment by President Barack Obama. His message: Washington was "deeply worried" about the possibility of more violence...
That's what the Art Institute of Chicago--venue of that Obama first date--discovered recently. In April the museum, which gets about $6.5 million a year in support from the city, announced plans to increase admission for adults from $12 to $18 while eliminating its separate charge for special exhibitions. In response, Chicago alderman Edward Burke threatened to end the museum's city-supplied free water. Eventually a compromise was reached: the institute would charge out-of-town visitors the full amount, but Chicagoans would get a $2 discount. James Cuno, the institute's director, says he's very...