Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just that the shift of winds in Eastern Europe is so incredibly rapid, but so disconcertingly nebulous. The changes in Poland and Hungary are not like an election campaign, which has a definite conclusion, or an earthquake, whose scale can be precisely measured. Where we will end up, few are willing to predict...
...would come to an end. Despite his role in the reform initiatives and opening of the Wall, Krenz is so widely distrusted that he stands in danger of losing his top role. Restive members demanded that an emergency party conference scheduled for mid-December be elevated into a full-scale congress that will have the power to dump the entire Central Committee...
Nothing is more objective than the new class of European and Japanese investors. What the Japanese are doing has very little relation to collecting as it was once understood. They are, quite simply, investment-buying on a huge scale, with limitless quantities of cheap credit: one zaibatsu offers open- ended loans of any size at 7% (3.5 points below the U.S. prime rate) to Japanese who want to buy Western...
...controlled an empire of assets under the umbrella of his holding company, Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd.: television stations, retailing, minerals and breweries around the world. He had even figured out a way of selling nonalcoholic beer to Muslims in the Middle East. Everything about him was on a large scale -- his ambitions, his capacity for risk, his appetite for publicity. Also, he had some Australian paintings. But he did not own an art collection that would cut ice outside his home city of Perth...
...things are really far apart. I'm writing you from the middle of this dirt-pit known as Dakong. It is the home of some amazing 1560-year-old Buddhist caves which hold huge three-story-high Buddhas. Truly breathtaking. The monuments here are built on such a grand scale...