Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's not slowing down American scouts, who gathered in Fukuoka, Japan, to check out some of the region's best dribblers. "The only country with more basketball talent than China is the U.S.," says Brown, the former L.S.U. coach. And among China's 1.3 billion people are plenty of tall, eager youngsters. "China has done a very good job of finding the size and cultivating it," says Dwane Casey, a Seattle SuperSonics assistant coach who has been scouting the region. Now the challenge is to get that size overseas...
...while the Harvard name can be helpful when finding work, Hughes says there is some disadvantage to graduating from a school in Cambridge--and not in the region...
Russia, which had previously helped to maintain a precarious balance of power in the Balkan region, was suddenly in no position to keep the peace...
...student asked about the effect of refugee flow on Tanzanian economics and development, pointing out that many of its neighboring countries are engaged in war. Mkapa replied that there was a special need to press for peace in the region and said that UN support was needed to monitor the process...
...feinted toward rebuilding its nuclear program before allowing inspection of its facilities in exchange for promises of aid. Recent preparations for long-range missile tests were also widely interpreted as an attempt to press for more economic assistance amid a deepening food crisis. "Washington and its allies in the region believe it?s worth dangling economic carrots rather than facing down an unpredictable state in a potentially catastrophic confrontation," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "If we leave North Korea starving but isolated and it tries in desperation to break out through launching aggression, the only option would...