Word: protractedness
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Europeans find that unsurprising. Europe, after all, is indulging in its own protracted bout of navel gazing now that moves toward a common defense and security policy have met with spectacular nonsuccess. Notes Andre Fontaine, chief editorialist and former editor of Le Monde: "A country that is deprived of enemies...
The war hastened the already simmering Russian Revolution and the founding of the Soviet Union and, hence, that protracted standoff between vast swatches of the planet that came to be called the cold war. It foretold the beginning of the end of European overseas expansion. And the U.S., against many...
In recent years TIME has devoted special issues of the magazine to compelling and urgent subjects ranging from women's trials and triumphs to the U.S. Constitution. The extra pages in these issues provide for protracted reflection outside the current sweep of news and allow us to bring you a...
The last time the forum took place, in late 1990 after the start of the current slowdown, the panel accurately predicted a protracted slump. This time the issues were just as pressing: Why is the recovery so abysmally slow, and what hope can be found in the economic proposals of...
Complicating matters further, Thomson-CSF, with $6.8 billion in sales last year, recruited the Carlyle Group, an investment concern specializing in defense firms, to join in the offering for LTV. Their combined bid of $450 million bested by $65 million an offer by a consortium of two U.S. weapons- makers...