Word: establishes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans buy the shoes, toys, clothes and other products--$45 billion worth last year--that China can deliver at better value. But that's not happening. Instead, China refuses to buy planes, as well as cars, cellphones and other U.S. products unless the American manufacturers agree to establish more factories there, transferring precious technology and skills...
Stripping the Guerre story of its suspense, composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyricist Alain Boublil establish from the start that the new, improved Martin is a fraud--and a godsend to the virgin wife Bertrande. That's fine; we want to know why she connives in the deception. But the plot is hoked up with religious pieties (Huguenots are the new Bosnians) and a psycho villain desperate to take any Martin's place in Bertrande's bed. It's Romeo and Juliet without the poetry, or an Oklahoma! that...
Having helped establish the campaign's major theme, the Americans then set out to modify it. The Americans used their focus-group coordinator, Alexei Levinson, to determine what exactly Russians most feared about the Communists. Long lines, scarce food and renationalization of property were frequently cited, but mostly people worried about civil war. "That allowed us to move beyond simple Red bashing," says Shumate. "That's why Yeltsin and his surrogates and our advertising all highlighted the possibility of unrest if Yeltsin lost. Many people felt some nostalgia for what the communists had done for Russia and no one liked...
...cause of Hemingway's death at 41. But whatever killed her, she has already become another entry on the roster of celebrities whose lives began in a swirl of glamour and ended in relative obscurity and pain. Defined by her beauty and her family's celebrity, Hemingway struggled to establish an independent identity as her looks and fame faded. In her final days, says a friend, Gigi Gaston, "she was back on her feet, and she looked beautiful. But I felt she was incredibly lonely...
...from a textile town and family in Germany, and have seen this industry decline here simply because we couldn't compete with children's wages in the Third World. In a global economy, companies will manufacture wherever wages are lowest. Now we need global unions to help establish and enforce the minimum wage and all other benefits workers should enjoy. Asian child labor and European unemployment are aspects of the same problem. It's an illusion to think otherwise. Neither difficult situation will be solved by politicians and unions who still think only of national interests or by consumers indifferent...