Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recurring in time across China's history has been the story of the rise and decline of successive dynasties. Since the 1900s, Chinese historians have strenuously attacked this traditional way of looking at history as violating any claims in China to development and progress. They feel that such an idea...
NEW YORK: When Alan Greenspan speaks, people listen. Especially on Wall Street, where his latest pronouncement at a Senate Banking Committee meeting this morning sent the Dow plunging by more than 100 points before it settled to a loss for 61 1/2 for the day. Greenspan, who rocked markets in...
All this cost cutting has accompanied one other remarkable change in the way airlines do business. The mid-1990s have seen the major carriers, in effect, stop picking one another's pockets. Where once they seemed to have a policy of infinite expansion into competitors' territories, now they view wholesale...
So what changed? For one thing, competition. Until the 1970s, networks could offer "serious journalism" knowing that viewers had noplace else to go. The explosion of cable and satellite communications made it possible for network competitors to distribute tabloid TV shows like Hard Copy and afternoon talk shows that viewers...
MOSCOW: Faced with the likelihood of NATO expansion, Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov spent a Friday meeting with Madeleine Albright trying to win as many concessions as possible before giving in. Russia has begun to weaken, but still remains officially opposed to NATO's eastward move. "We are still negatively...