Word: globality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...float into China. Amid the pressures of Communist Party politics and the demands of managing a nation of 1.2 billion people, will he be able to tolerate the triple threat of an Internet society: openness, transparency and democracy? Smarter, better-informed businessmen may be more competitive in the new global economy, but they are also, inevitably, better informed about life in the outside world--and the rights and freedoms that China doesn't yet permit...
...whom the gods would humble they first make the center of a global advertising campaign. Beyond Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela, few humans have recently come closer to sainthood-by-acclaim than the Dalai Lama. Revered as a Buddha of compassion by his followers, Tibet's political and religious leader garnered not only a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts on behalf of his Chinese-occupied homeland but also (as the Apple Computer ads strove to exploit) the vague undifferentiated goodwill of a cynical and overcaffeinated world still auditioning sources of truth, calm and peace...
Carter appointed himself to a new historical position--which he made up as he went along--as America's anti-President: a psalm-singing global circuit rider and moral interventionist who behaved, in a surreal and often effective way, as if the election of 1980 had been only some kind of ghastly mistake, a technicality of democratic punctilio. And so, for nearly 20 years, Anti-President Carter has circled the world embodying hyperactive paradox: insufferable self-absorption and self-righteousness in the service of admirably selfless causes...
...obscure quatrains, he prophesied that in 1999, "from the sky there will come a great King of terror." Nobody knows what that was supposed to mean, but in recent decades many would-be prophets have used those lines to predict all manner of cataclysms, from nuclear war to global warming to the end of the world. This suggests that centuries of science have not displaced--and perhaps have even reinforced--people's desire for mystical clues to their fate...
...Increasing ties with the global economy is crucial to sustaining economic growth," she said...