Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children could have told you that years ago. Grove has always been fully flushed with fatherhood. "He was a wonderful father," recalls his older daughter. Says his younger: "Being Andy Grove's child isn't for the faint of heart. But if you can roll with it, it's great." Case in point: Grove always worked to include the kids in his business travel. But he made the girls write reports on the countries they were visiting: Italy, Spain, England. A nickel a page. "That's how we'd get our spending money," recalls a daughter. "Luckily, my grandparents would...
...tightening at an "unsustainable" pace. And he has never recanted his belief that the Fed should tighten credit mildly at the first signs of renewed inflation. But for now the Asian crisis has put on the shelf any plans for an interest-rate boost. Maybe the good times can roll a little longer...
...Miho Museum I.M. Pei is best known for resounding Modernist statements like the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. For this project in the hills of a nature preserve near Kyoto, Japan, he chose literal understatement--80% of the main building is belowground. But first he leads visitors along a wooded pathway, through a tunnel and over a cable suspension bridge, an enchanted path to buried art treasures...
...main fire wall against a global financial crisis is still Japan. It has huge foreign-currency reserves and is the principal source of investment capital in the region. Seoul is looking desperately to Tokyo to roll over its credit. But Japanese banks, burdened with a quarter-trillion dollars of bad domestic debt, cannot easily risk more money in the South Korean sinkhole. Japan is also the origin of the very economic model that is causing the crisis. No one really knows, but many moneymen fear that Japan's own financial system could be as dangerously debt-ridden as South Korea...
...pianist shares with his former bandleader a taste for pedagogy, historicism and sheer ambition. Roberts' two most recent albums were a song cycle about romantic loss and rebirth, and a jazzman's reclamation of Rhapsody in Blue. The new disc begins with basics--covers of Robert Johnson and Jelly Roll Morton--and then branches out with 12 self-penned numbers. The climax, Roberts writes, "symbolizes what the whole record is about...our belief that jazz (blues) will dance into the 21st century." It sounds, well, better than it sounds...