Word: oriented
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When his father, the flamboyant founder of the Orient Overseas shipping empire, died suddenly in 1982, he bequeathed his heirs a collapsing empire indebted to more than 200 banks for loans of $2.68 billion. For the next 17 months, C.H. Tung labored seven days a week to build a consensus among creditors to restructure the tangle of public and private companies. When he needed a large infusion of new capital, he turned to the Taipei government. The answer was no. Tung then approached mainland Chinese, and a local businessman with ties to Beijing kicked in the money. Only this year...
...eyes of many people in the United States, the Arab World remains synonymous with conflict, fanaticism and terror. At best Arabs are seen as "noble savages' who live in a primitive mystical orient, stuck in the romanticism of the Middle Ages. Such perceptions create an unnecessary rift between the Arabs and Americans. While some attribute this negative image to the various bombings, riots and wars in the region, these isolated events still do not justify sweeping generalizations about a nation of 22 countries and 278 million people...
...Fall ready-to-wear shows in Paris, the most important bazaar on the fashion calendar, were in full crush. At Dior, house of the very hot designer John Galliano, the props indicated that the young maestro had been thinking hard about a dreamland Orient. As the crowds tripped around the delicate bridge to nowhere on their way to find or steal seats, one conservatively dressed businessman waited quietly in the shadows. Galliano may get the attention, but, murmured Bernard Arnault, "I have...
...civil suit, but he had no funds.) When Singleton moved in 1988 to his native Florida, the reception was equally hostile. A Tampa car dealer offered him $5,000 to get out of the state, and a firebomb exploded on his lawn. He had more luck later in Orient Park, where he moved into a house owned by his family. Some neighbors were ignorant of his past. Others felt sure Singleton had put it behind him. He proffered small gifts and helped out with tasks. "He was the kind of person who, when his cat walked on my car, would...
...second-guessing. If Singleton had committed any serious crimes in Florida before last week, he wasn't caught. Police records indicate shoplifting charges. But the absence of intervening atrocities between bookend acts of horror does not lessen the impression that the California picketers were justified and the tolerant Orient Parkers tragically naive. In 1987 Singleton's parole led to passage of California's "Singleton bill," which carries a 25-years-to-life sentence with possible parole for aggravated mayhem. In fact, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office estimates that subsequent toughening of statutes would now assure Singleton...