Word: crossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nuclear world order, a legitimate contender for the geopolitical throne. In 2003, go the national-security nabobs, China will have a new and improved generation of nuclear weapons, all thanks to Bill Clinton, Loral and Wen Ho Lee. And all the Pentagon will have to do is cross out USSR and write in PRC -- and aim everything in the arsenal a little to the right...
...eight months since he came to office, his popularity had been steadily growing in opinion polls while Yeltsin's numbers faded into the low single digits. If Primakov was allowed to become President, Yeltsin aides insisted, he would have imposed on Russia a system that was a cross between the ideas of communist party leader Zyuganov and Joseph Stalin...
...cross-pollination would not have worked without American patience and flexibility. "Forget 'merger of equals,'" says Stallkamp. "We're one company now, and we're making it work." Despite the early arrogance of the Germans, Stallkamp and his band impressed them with technical prowess--the best auto-manufacturing operation in the world--and a willingness to bury differences and just get the job done...
Since then, meeting schedules have been altered and their venue changed from Stuttgart to New York in order to reduce travel stress for both sides. The corporate-communications department, which has lost top staff members to cross-cultural tension (remember the business cards?) and job competition, last month hired an outside facilitator to help the communicators communicate with one another. "I never thought much of outside consultants," admits Roland Klein, a senior vice president for corporate communications. "But this seemed to work very well...
Estefan, 45, was the first to envision the fusion of Latin and disco music with English lyrics--or, as he likes to call it, "a cross between rice, beans and hamburger"--that came to be known as the Miami Sound. Undeterred by industry executives who said, "Dump the timbales" or "It will never sell," the Cuban immigrant put together a local band called the Miami Sound Machine in the early '80s. The lead singer was his then girlfriend Gloria. The group's 1985 smash hit Conga transformed Gloria Estefan into the first Latin female crossover superstar...