Word: handouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst weeks yet in the region's financial turmoil, fears that the IMF's largest-ever handout would not salvage matters dragged down every Asian market and currency, especially Seoul's. That situation could reverberate ruinously in Japan. Not only is Korea in hock to Japan for at least $24 billion, but a further deterioration of the Korean won--which has lost a staggering 50% of its value against the U.S. dollar this year--would make it harder for Japanese products to compete with Korean exports, from cars to steel to electronics. That in turn would plunge Japan deeper into...
...turns out that the promise of HDTV may have been just a ruse. Each month, in surreptitious ways, the handout to the broadcasters becomes more egregious, which is unsurprising, given their lobbying clout with Congress--$7 million worth in the past two years. A clause buried in this summer's balanced-budget act, pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Trent Lott, allows stations to keep both their old and new channel space beyond 2006 as long as 15% of households in their markets are still using analog sets. And ABC president Preston Padden has disclosed that his network...
Describing a Web page on which one could run simulations of chemical reactions, he says, "I can't imagine that a handout could have done that, or that watching a demo could teach you that...
Maier says that the computer makes it simple for him to "boil down" his notes the night before lecture to a one page handout...
...technologies and skills...and whose governments see their role as working with industry to equip people for change." The same similarities surface when Blair talks about "rights and duties going together." Or when he says he wants welfare to be "a hand up, not just a handout." Or when he goes on about charting a political path that "is between and ahead of the old left and the new right." On at least one occasion, Blair was actually first with the cliche. Two months before Clinton uttered a virtually identical formulation in his 1996 State of the Union address, Blair...