Word: nationalism
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...While the moves to step in and save two of the nation's largest banks may keep the national financial and credit systems from collapse, the action also make the federal government the de facto owners of these companies...
...Deflation may not have had a bad name until it hit the Japanese economy in the early 1990s. The financial activity in the Asian nation went into a long hibernation. The pace of commerce slowed to a point which had not been seen in the modern history of the country...
...initiative foreshadowed over two decades of work conducted by Black student intellectual activists who were concerned about the growing problem of Black-on-Black violence and what was then becoming known as the Black underclass. At that time an ad hoc coalition of Black churchmen, in collaboration with the Nation of Islam and other grass roots activist began a series of fora to address the issue. These initiatives, reported in both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson were, amusingly, never reported in any of the research which evolved into a cottage industry, on what came to be known...
President George W. Bush said farewell to the nation, but the nation wasn't paying attention. TV barely cut to him in time for his first words Thursday evening and couldn't wait to cut away when he finished 13 minutes later. Something unexpected and awesome had happened to shoulder him out of the picture: a jet gliding to a stop in the middle of the Hudson River, with everyone emerging safely. The departure of President Bush, by contrast, had become part of the world's mental wallpaper some time...
...stood out in the way the assailants so blatantly tried to dictate the coverage of Mexico's television giant, which is probably the most powerful media organization south of the Rio Grande. Earning about 75% of Mexico's broadcast advertising, Televisa has long had an overwhelming influence on the nation's political life. Presidents, lobbyists and rising politicians all fight hard for space on its nightly noticiero, which regularly breaks leading stories. "Televisa has the equivalent political clout of ABC, NBC and CBS combined," says Mexican media investigator Raul Trejo. "When the narcos threaten this organization, they are showing they...