Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power walking across the churchyard with the cameramen jousting and stumbling behind. After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre. The plant's 1990 closing sapped the town's strength, so another politician might use the moment to rail against Corporations That Turn Their Backs on Our Communities. Bradley looks for poetry instead. The missing landmark "tells me life has unknown terms and change is all around us," he says...
...pushed other nations to issue an ultimatum to Jakarta: permit such a force or it will be sent in uninvited. A failure to permit peacekeepers into a killing zone like East Timor, he warned Jakarta, was perilously close to a crime against humanity. When Habibie called Annan at home in New York at 7:45 Sunday morning to announce his change of heart--Annan told aides he was "relieved" to get the call--the President said there would be no conditions. East Timor could have it's violently won freedom...
...debut in Japan in March 2000 and in North America late next year, it will be Internet-ready (like Dreamcast), capable of running current-generation PlayStation software (key to maintaining a loyal fan base) and equipped with enough ports to make it the electronic centerpiece of the future networked home. That, of course, would also be Microsoft's goal--the game box that does...
...star would help ratings, a big indigenous basketball market may be even more important. And the Chinese want to win. They have hopes of a medal in Sydney next year. Though Beijing has permitted a few soccer players to work in Europe, its Sports Ministry keeps them mostly at home, training, Soviet-style, for the next Olympics. China's free market does not yet extend to national treasures like Wang...
Well, maybe--except the coming broadband Web seems expressly designed to hasten the demise of Viacom's broadcast-media landscape. "I don't understand how the [TV] networks get bigger," says Joe Krause, senior vice president of content at Excite@Home, one of the broadcast world's likelier rivals. "I only know how they get smaller...