Word: globalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...With the global economy out of shape, some designers have decided to play it safe. Others, however, have chosen to experiment with 3-D patterns and metallic cutouts that add a retro-futuristic touch to last season's graphic trend. For his spring collection, Oscar de la Renta embroidered navy stripes on formal dresses in a modern harlequin design. Armani Casa's printed armchair and Verner Panton's rug appear to have been cut from the canvases of Victor Vasarely's Op art paintings from the '60s, while armored Coach bags and caged boots from Yves Saint Laurent showcase...
...Career Services had launched a new set of programs designed to “turn up the volume on diverse career options.” The new programming was designed to counteract the perception that OCS only offered help for students interested in business careers and featured events covering global public health, human rights and poverty reduction, government, international relations, education, the environment, clean technology, the creative arts, fashion, sports management, journalism, and more...
...either eradicating terrorist movements and their patrons or moderating them. Second, U.S. policymakers decided that movements like the Baathists and the Taliban and regimes like those in Syria, Iran and North Korea are fundamentally different from al-Qaeda. They are different because their goals are national or regional, not global. The Baathists want to run Iraq again; the Taliban wants to reclaim power in Afghanistan; the Iranians want to perpetuate their dictatorship and wield influence across the Middle East. Those goals may be unacceptable, but we've decided that they bear enough relationship to reality to be worth talking about...
...recently involved in bailouts for Hungary, Latvia and Ukraine - now forecasts a 3.7% drop in GDP for the central and eastern European region for 2009. The downturn has brought down governments in Latvia and Hungary, and a prolonged crisis could translate into further political instability. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...wave of revenge attacks, Balogh says, would have "terrible consequences" in a country that has become a racial powder keg and has been hit hard by the global economic crisis. "There are parties that are saying that the Roma [are] to blame for the problems in the country," says Orban Kolompar, president of the National Roma Council, who believes the economic downturn will lead to increased support for far-right parties with anti-Roma platforms in both European parliamentary elections this year and Hungarian national elections next. "Voters who are disillusioned [by the crisis] may join them...