Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...targeted chiefly at Asia. Goldman's Asia president, Philip Murphy, indicates a major target will be consumer goods, which many others also consider an attractive field for U.S. investment. One reason is that some Asian companies are reorganizing their countries' chaotic distribution systems, replacing mom-and-pop stores with modern networks of warehouses and big retail outlets, but need outside cash to finish...
...outfitted with all of the conveniences of an industrialized country, visitors should be aware that the economy of Home is far less stable than our native land with its $4 billion endowment. Because Home is an emerging capital market, only the most cosmopolitan regions of Home have confronted modern technological progress. Visitors who come Home expecting to maintain the same lifestyle they have led in more advanced parts of the world will soon find themselves confronting intense culture shock and should in most cases prepare for severe withdrawal from e-mail...
...Modern mothers should read her story whenever they are tempted to complain of 2 a.m. feedings," praised Rheta Grimsley Johnson in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution last Wednesday. "Sacajawea had the right stuff in spades...
...racing against time, as Western influences seeped into native villages. Thatch roofs were giving way to tin, while shorts and T shirts were replacing breechcloths and feathers. The shamanistic tradition was fading because missionaries brought in modern medicine's pills--many developed from rain-forest plants in the first place. Most ominously, the Amazon rain forest was dying around the edges, torched and slashed by farmers and loggers. Somewhere in the jungle might be a cure for AIDS or cancer that would be lost forever before it could even be discovered...
...Clytemnestra. She just does it (or rather, has her brother Orestes do it). Leveaux, who has brought his crisp staging of the tragedy from London to Broadway, says he was thinking of events in Bosnia: Can the cycle of vengeance ever end? Yet he resists the urge to add modern complexities to this fiercely singleminded play. Enough to watch the talented Zoe Wanamaker as a very human, almost waifish Electra, buried in a gigantic overcoat, like the mantle of fate that impels this timeless play forward...