Word: shadowing
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Under the round, silent shadow of William Shawn, editor in chief for 35 years, the New Yorker was urbane, literate and indifferent to the philistines. In short, it was intelligent. But by the time Shawn stepped down in 1987, two years after the magazine was purchased by media billionaire S.I. Newhouse, a good many of its pages were also subdued to the point of immobile. It was an atmosphere that Shawn's successor, Robert Gottlieb, did not do much to relieve. When Newhouse moved Tina Brown into the editor's job in 1992, it was for the plain purpose...
...billion annual trade deficit the U.S. has with China cast a shadow over President Clinton's visit there. The Chinese government has made great efforts to sell to Americans, but it has gone to even greater lengths to prevent Americans from selling to China. Tariffs, quotas, obscure laws, prejudicial inspections and so on are routinely used by Chinese authorities to prevent American sales. This reverberates in the U.S., affecting thousands of companies and workers. It is time for Clinton to try strenuously to break down all the Chinese trade barriers. For starters, how about trying to get China to grant...
...streaked home to Washington last week, Air Force One cast a long, lonely shadow over Japan. Yet its presidential passengers managed nary a wave. In fact, Japan was about the only country that was not graced by an encouraging word from Bill Clinton or his top aides as they wrapped up their China extravaganza. Instead, while Beijing's mistakes are all but forgiven these days, Tokyo is regarded as the regional deadbeat. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who pronounced China "an island of stability" in Asia's economic crisis, reminded people in Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea that he was "deeply...
...think his performance was good...but his problem, like any Vice President's, is that he is too much in the shadow of the President, and in that shadow he feels inadequate...
...knows I smoke, I drink, I alter my mind, I didn't wait until marriage--stuff that makes the parents reach for the smelling salts or the shotgun, depending on the household, the guilt of impersonating the angelic 18-year-old before my parents had been the only shadow over my heady new discoveries. But I was torn between the attraction of filial honesty and the terror of parental persecution...