Word: regionalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because he hails from a region of moderate Republicans that Paxon might be able to bridge the party's moderate-conservative divide. He did so in his personal life when he married Susan Molinari, a pro-choice Republican colleague who quit Congress this year to anchor a Saturday morning news show for cbs and spend more time with their 18-month-old daughter. In his public life, he did it as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee in 1994 and 1996, when more than a third of all current House Republicans were elected. If Gingrich was the mastermind behind...
...continuing to build up its forces, mainly air power, in the gulf region but shows no eagerness to use them. How, then, can Saddam be forced to open his doors to the inspectors searching for his hidden arsenal of poison and germs? As Richard Butler, head of the Special Commission, and Defense Secretary William Cohen both stressed last week, the issue is not just Iraq. It is how the world will try to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction for decades to come...
...time and again, it became clear that among my family members and friends there are more than a few bagel experts--individuals who have come to see themselves as the food's self-appointed defenders and trustees. It's as though they've all secretly swore an oath of regional loyalty, one which bars them from acknowledging the integrity of any foreign product. Eventually my sister entered the debate, breaking the deadlock and introducing a sensible if still questionable explanation for discrepancies in bagel quality: bagels are best if boiled, she intoned, and it is this practice--one which...
...fact that the rankings are unchanged from last year ? despite Hong Kong becoming a Special Administrative Region of China last July ? can be seen as a victory for Jiang Zemin, who went out of his way to preserve the former British colony's status under the dictum of "one country, two systems." China itself, strangely enough, is ranked Number 120, and deemed "mostly unfree." Beijing investors, evidently, have much to learn from their brothers to the south: like the thrill of watching the bottom drop out of the Hang Seng index, for example...
...Meanwhile, Asian finance officials may try to relieve some economic pressure in the region ? and sidestep IMF restrictions ? by establishing their own multibillion-dollar bailout fund. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) fund would cooperate with the IMF and would have strict borrowing requirements of its own, but would not be accountable to the IMF. The fund, which would supplement international loans, has been opposed by the U.S. ? which wants to keep the IMF in control of dousing the region?s fiscal brush fires. TIME asks whether the IMF is up to the job of bailing out the Tigers