Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rode shotgun with any new airplane it ordered. Trippe hired Charles Lindbergh to ride his airplanes incognito, and Lindbergh's ideas helped shape the cabin of the first jets. He also served as a pathfinder, exploring possible commercial air routes across the Atlantic and over the polar regions of Asia. Pan Am engineers crawled all over Boeing as the company conceived the outline...
World War II liberated Tom Watson Jr. from his demons. His success in promoting the use of flight simulators earned him a job as aide and pilot for Major General Follett Bradley, the Army Air Forces' inspector general. Watson flew throughout Asia, Africa and the Pacific, displaying steel nerves and shrewd foresight and planning skills. He was set to fly for United Air Lines after the war when a chance conversation with Bradley changed his course. Informed of Watson's job plans, the general said, "Really? I always thought you'd go back and run the IBM company." A stunned...
...Siddharth Mohandas '00, editor-in-chief of the Harvard Asia Pacific Review, which was founded in 1996, said there is still room for more magazines like Harvard Focus Europe...
...spring from the hobbling of foreign competitors. For 15 years Japanese banks have battled for market share in U.S. real estate and corporate lending. At times they have undercut U.S. banks to the point where the business became unprofitable. But the Japanese banks hold so many bad loans in Asia that they are scaling back dramatically in the U.S. European banks aren't faring much better. Both trends should boost profits for U.S. lenders...
...then, the public and most of the American press, including TIME, had turned against the war. That was due in no small measure to the words and pictures from the correspondents sent to Vietnam to cover the conflict. Many of them went to Southeast Asia convinced of the rightness of the struggle and grew first into skeptics and then critics. For their trouble, many were killed or wounded, and most were criticized as biased at best and unpatriotic at worst...