Word: central
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, Peter Mandelson, Britain's trade secretary and the architect of Blair's successful New Labour policies, was found to have borrowed L375,000 (more than $600,000) to buy a new home in central London. He borrowed the money from Geoffrey Robinson, the government's politically appointed paymaster general, but more pertinently a former entrepreneur whose business dealing Mandelson's agency was investigating...
...center-left governments now in charge in Europe weren't the ones who put together this deal," reminds Baumohl. "Politicians won't be able to deal with unemployment by cutting interest rates anymore ? that's now the job of the European Central Bank, which has to fit one monetary policy to 11 different countries. It's going to be very frustrating." If the euro works for Europe ? attracting investment, increasing efficiency ? look for a South American currency, or even an Asian currency, a decade or two down the road. But if this deal gets torn up over political squabbling, says...
Meanwhile, on the one battleground that matters--the federal courthouse--Microsoft is still doing dismally. Take its central assertion that Internet Explorer is not a separate application, but an integral part of the Windows operating system. A government expert pointed out last week that Microsoft Press's computer dictionary defines a Web browser (like Explorer) as an application...
...last week, passing picketing ABC workers to do so. Malone's agent said the hoopster was ignorant of the strike and was asleep when his driver wheeled through the picket line. A spokesman for the striking ABC employees said the union accepts the highly plausible explanation. Later, Malone visited Central Park to film a video for a virtual fishing game, a sport that could earn new fans if the strike goes on much longer...
...DANILO PEREZ Central Avenue (Impulse) Perez, a pianist, is after a kind of musical Creole, mixing straight-ahead bop with motifs from Cuba, Brazil and his native Panama--all at once! Central Avenue may not be the year's most coherent album, but it's emblematic of the new, more supple, more eclectic brand of fusion that's enriching jazz...