Word: saviors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...question of whether China can save the world is: Not yet. Plenty of economists doubt that China's economy is as sound as it appears or truly on the road to a sustained recovery. And many more dismiss the chatter about China as the world's economic savior as hopelessly premature...
...unlikely savior in Star Wars. The sci-fi flick and the collectables it spawned rekindled America's appetite for action figures, so Hasbro reintroduced a scaled-down line of G.I. Joes to try and capitalize on the trend. Instead of a single character, there was an entire battalion of G.I. Joes, each given signature weapons, backstories and code names like Scarlett and Snake Eyes. Joe also got a new enemy, Cobra -"a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world," as described in the intro to the 1980s TV cartoon G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. (Cobra operatives got action...
Read TIME's 2000 article on Booker "The Savior of Newark...
...grew. Interestingly, in the same period, its website, with the much touted Business Exchange - a business-news aggregator cum social-networking site - increased its readership, usually drawing a little over 5 million unique visitors a month, according to Compete.com. That's not a bad showing, but it's no savior for a weekly magazine that is losing readers and hemorrhaging money...
...China and other parts of Asia in the fall - offering up his international vision, a hodgepodge of classic realpolitik, diplomatic determination, community-organizer idealism and charismatic leadership. He has presented what he hopes will become a new public identity for the U.S., less global leader than global facilitator, less savior than responsible partner. (Read "The Five Faces of Barack Obama...