Word: johnson
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...Boris Johnson, London's charismatic, mop-haired mayor, takes issue with the notion of overdependence, saying that the city's economy has "a very, very wide base." But he tells TIME: "The strength of the financial sector is obviously pretty important in acting as a flywheel to spin those other wheels. And I'm going to be fighting very hard to make sure that we don't in any way gum up that machine...
...Crimson opens the year calmly enough on November 15th at the Binghamton Open in Johnson City. But, the schedule quickly picks up steam, as the grapplers prepare to battle six teams from last year?...
...reminder of the country's growing national might. "There are problems, yes, but the message of this is that the [Communist] Party has the right control policy because of all it has done," says Dean Cheng, China analyst with the CNA Corp., a U.S.-based think tank. Says Joan Johnson-Freese, a space expert at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.: "The Chinese have read the Apollo playbook. They understand everything the U.S. got from its lunar program...
Given that history, it is all the more puzzling that just a few months later, Rothko would agree to provide work for a restaurant in the newly completed Seagram Building. The commission came by way of Philip Johnson, the American architect and peerless cultural middleman, who had collaborated on the design of the Four Seasons and had also arranged for New York's Museum of Modern Art to buy its first Rothko. So it may have been partly out of gratitude that Rothko agreed to a project that was in every way wrong for him. The Four Seasons was glittering...
...Twenty miles (32 km) outside city limits at the Boynton Beach Mall, 17-year-old Jay Johnson lets his black shirt drape over dropped shorts. "My dad and my mom don't like it," he says. "You gotta listen to your parents. And I know it's hard to find a job with your pants down low, so you fix them." Some who are against the fashion argue there is no need for a fashion police, despite sagging's association with gangsta...