Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Albright met with the German, French, British and Italian foreign ministers in New York City last week to plot how each country might exploit its ties with dissident elements in Serbia. She asked Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini, for example, to place a phone call to the Vatican. The Serbian Orthodox Church last month demanded that Milosevic step down and instructed its priests to preach from the pulpit this past Sunday that Serbian forces are responsible for the atrocities in Kosovo. Washington wants Pope John Paul II, who helped engineer the toppling of Poland's communist regime, to join...
Still, Mar Rodriguez knows parents who have hired private coaches for girls as young as 10. Andrew Roderick, who heads UK-Elite, the company that supplies British coaches for Kelly Donnelly's team, says such parents may be setting up their kids for disappointment. "The big thing is fun," he says. "If you're not having fun with it, you shouldn't be doing...
...price. This may explain why, despite his ranking as one of the world's richest pop stars, the Versace-favoring singer is seeking a $40 million loan from a London bank. An article in the London Sunday Times last week claimed that John is already carrying debts with British and American banks in excess of $11 million; he is known to ring up as much as $400,000 a week in credit-card bills and is said to stock his British homes with 240 flower arrangements a week. He is also generous to charitable causes and is God's gift...
Tour operators have taken a different tack. An increasingly contentious wave of mergers and takeovers since 1997 has left 80% of the British package-holiday business in the hands of just four companies. Hotels started an era of frenetic consolidation slightly earlier. In 1997-98 more than $25 billion worth of property changed hands, including the purchase of Inter-Continental by Bass Hotels & Resorts and Marriott's buyout of Renaissance...
...research, conducted by Japanese and Scottish scientists, may be a wee bit flimsy, as it is based almost entirely on how 104 Japanese and British women responded to some digitally altered photos. But it's reasonably intuitive and might explain such phenomena as the brevity of the Carmen Electra-Dennis Rodman marriage. It also jibes with what evolutionary psychologists have been saying for some time. When it comes to settling down, women know that the alpha male may not be the best bet for the "parental investment" required to raise a human child. But when the biological bells are clanging...