Word: rim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arctic offers giant possibilities. So does the entire Pacific Rim -- Indonesia, Australia, China, even Vietnam. And there's Eastern Europe, the North Sea, Africa. There's as much oil, and more gas, to be discovered worldwide as we've found throughout history...
...shows they put on the air. In NBC's The Fanelli Boys, four grownup brothers move back to Brooklyn to live with . . . their mother! In CBS's Evening Shade, a man is nonplussed when his wife tells him she's pregnant; he's already had a vasectomy! (Rim shot.) In Fox's Good Grief, Howie Mandel plays a nutty guy who does TV commercials for (hold on to your hats) a mortuary...
...move leaves Singapore (pop. 2.7 million), one of the Pacific Rim's most dynamic centers, as that rarity, a non-Communist country without some edition of the far-flung financial newspaper (worldwide circ. more than 2 million). The Journal's decision also marks the latest step in a long-running feud between the island republic and foreign-based publications in general about the government's right to reply to coverage. The circulation of the Asian Wall Street Journal was cut in 1987, when the paper refused to print in full a lengthy government letter about an article on a proposed...
With or without a new set of prerogatives, Gorbachev and the entire central government are skating on the rim of irrelevancy as far as economic policy . goes. Already the Russian parliament, under President Boris Yeltsin, has voted to begin implementing the 500-Day Plan on Oct. 1, regardless of which way Moscow goes. The other republics, many of which desire economic sovereignty more than anything else, will be eagerly looking...
Second-year French student Nick Nesbitt--with longish hair, khaki pants, a plaid shirt and wire-rim glasses--gives a similar view of the Boylston scene...