Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing demand for foreign cars, toys and games, creating the largest trade imbalance in eight years. TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports that the trend toward a vast trade disparity with China bodes poorly for the U.S. economy: "This shift from Japan to China is a warning, an alarm bell. The potential that China will be a source of cheap exports and lost American jobs far surpasses that potential from Japan." Japan's economy has increasingly matured, Simons says, and is not nearly the economic threat that China is becoming, given its large population of 1.2 billion people. "China...
...sometimes demand to see a movie before they would consent to fight. Had the U.S. command known this, of course, it could have significantly altered the course of the war by buying up all the projectors carried by Saigon electronics stores, which was where the V.C. shopped for their Bell & Howells...
DIED. TERREL BELL, 74, Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of Education; of pulmonary fibrosis; in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bell's department--initially targeted for elimination--survived after he helped engineer an influential report, A Nation at Risk, which sparked a drive for educational reform...
Only 23 of the original 44 bells were saved. 22 now sit in Lowell's tower, where they were arranged by a Russian monk. The largest weighs 12.5 tons, and measures nine feet in diameter. The second largest, and the only bell outside Lowell, can be found atop the Business School's Baker Library...
...names Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Monica Seles and Steffi Graf ring a bell...