Word: fortress
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...process, Apple (worldwide sales: $6.3 billion) has joined a select group of American companies that have debunked the myth of Japan as a fortress impenetrable to outside products. But cracking the Japanese market has had deeper significance for the California-based company: with profit margins steadily shrinking in the personal-computer business, CEO John Sculley has set out to expand Apple's business into advanced consumer electronics like CD-ROM players and personal digital assistants (PDAs), far more powerful versions of the electronic pocket diaries developed by Japan's Casio and Sharp. Sculley believes Apple has a key advantage because...
...world leader. We can't retreat to fortress America," said U.S. Army Col. Keirn C. Brown, a fellow at CFIA...
ORANGE COUNTY in Southern California has long been known as a solid fortress of white conservative Republicans. But times change. The leading surname of Orange County residents buying houses during the past year was Nguyen (693 homes). Their new neighbors include 254 Lee families, 165 Garcias and 162 Kims...
...Bhutan arrows whistle through the silent air. Citizens, dressed by law in medieval robes, saunter past buildings, constructed by law in traditional fortress style. There is no television yet in the Hidden Kingdom, and airlines first arrived during the '80s. Last year the country saw scarcely 1,500 tourists (or roughly the same number that pour into Disneyland every hour...
Clearly, Harvard is no longer the Christian fortress of the past. But neither is it the bastion of atheism that some claim it to be. More than 350 years after the founding of the school, the tension between its sacred and secular sides has yet to be resolved...