Word: historicizing
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"I believe that we are today crossing the Rubicon in South Africa. There is no turning back." That was State President P.W. Botha's assessment last week, but hardly anyone outside the South African government could find much evidence to support it. Speaking in the port city of Durban before...
But the vow was short lived. In less than an hour Zhu reconsidered, according to the trade official, Long Yongtu, who told this story at the Institute for International Economics in Washington last month. It was clear to Zhu that Greenberg, a private U.S. citizen with deep knowledge of China...
While quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and running back Clifton Dawson received most of the attention throughout the Harvard football team’s historic undefeated season, Matt Schindel quietly kicked his way into the record books.
Stanford’s move yielded no discernible impact on the four companies’ stock prices, all of which remained close to their historic peaks. Following Stanford’s announcement last week, PetroChina—a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Company, which has poured billions of...
The rest of the league didn’t know it yet. The Ivy League media preseason poll picked Harvard to finish second—just a hair behind reigning champion Penn, but barely ahead of historic rival Yale. The rest of campus certainly had little clue that across the...