Word: papering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing, the region's entrepreneurs are not what they used to be. By and large, Asian institutions that looked on paper like modern corporations were really overgrown family firms, whose growth depended on the personal wealth of their owners and their ability to leverage that wealth through bank loans. Well, it will be a long time before Asian banks are able or willing to provide the kind of funding they used to--and, in any case, the entrepreneurs, their fortunes slashed by the crisis, cannot provide the necessary collateral...
Take, for example, the six daily local papers read by a population of just over a million people. Each paper caters to the viewpoint of one of the factions--the moderate Catholics, for example, or the extreme Protestants--and so one can immediately determine a person's political attitudes based primarily on the paper to which he or she subscribes...
...financier, who on May 5 allegedly absconded with more than $300 million of his clients? money, may have consulted the wrong astrological chart this time. According to the Hartford Courant, Frankel is believed to be in Europe, with Interpol hot on his trail, and ready to talk surrender. The paper says a criminal defense lawyer has contacted federal prosecutors on Frankel's behalf to discuss terms ?- although no one?s saying how close the hunters and the hunted are to a deal...
...Paper has always been the ideal technology for displaying information: It's easy to read, easy to carry, easy to store and hard to break. And thin ?- well, flat-panel monitors have nothing on paper. Now, realizing the lurid dreams science fiction writers have nurtured for decades, researchers are combining the best qualities of paper and the everyday computer monitor to produce electronic paper, and yesterday Xerox PARC and 3M announced an agreement to try to produce the stuff commercially. Can they make it happen...
...First, what exactly is electronic paper? Just what you'd think it is: A piece of paper that can not only display any text or image, but, like a computer monitor, rewrite that text or image as often and as many times as desired. Imagine a newspaper that automatically updates itself with fresh news and stock quotes and sports scores, in real time. Or a single textbook that becomes a math book in math class, a chemistry book in chemistry, and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in English. Or a billboard that advertises a new sale every day. MORE...