Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since China normalized relations with the United States in the late 1970s, the West has viewed the Middle Kingdom in a very different light. Its new foreign policy, coupled with major economic reforms, has vastly improved China's image abroad. Observers embrace reports of the "new" open and capitalistic China. But the recent detention and expulsion of John F. Burns, The New York Times' bureau chief in Beijing, demonstrated that the eastern nation is not nearly as "westernized" as people like to believe...
Gomes discussed the event with the Prince at Buckingham Palace for approximately an hour, during the minister's April visit to the United Kingdom...
...British Consulate initiated this visit,according to a Wang spokesman, because of both thehigh-technology company's financial involvement inthe United Kingdom and its role in revitalizingthe economic fortunes of the Merrimack Valley...
...audience, and 586 viewers shiver with delight. There is more magic that the customers never see. A Swedish pneumatic garbage system moves 50 tons of discarded glop a day. The costume room holds l.5 million items of clothing (eight per employee). The huge computer centers under the Magic Kingdom and Epcot control each attraction's speed, music, lights and vocal spiels. In the bakery, Chef Dominic Robertiello can produce 100 pies, 35,000 cookies and 14,400 muffins every...
...line 45 min. for a Frontierland hot dog. All the employees smile, even the teenagers in French Foreign Legion uniforms sweeping up cigarette butts in front of the imitation- Aztec Mexican pavilion. (Average "life-span" of a piece of street trash before being removed: 4 min.) During the Magic Kingdom's afternoon parade of Disney characters, a sanitation man in old-fashioned vest and black pants materializes to scoop up some horse dung. When the crowd cheers him, he doffs his hat and salutes...