Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story headquarters looms over the central financial district, housing what is often referred to as Hong Kong's "real" government. The bank prints 83% of the colony's currency and performs many of the functions of central banks elsewhere. Thus last week's announcement came as a terrible shock: the banking company was moving its legal domicile to London...
...economy is also especially vulnerable to shock waves from overseas. A panic in Japan's superheated real estate market would shake Japanese lenders and help trigger a global slump. So could the chaos that would ensue if the Soviet Union's restive republics plunge that country into civil...
Will the radical measures planned in exile be accepted at home? Rather than propel change, the shock of invasion may hinder it. "To cope with what has happened," says Hasan al-Ebraheem, "many have come to think of this time as a temporary setback, like an earthquake. Psychologically, people will want to recreate the past as exactly as they can in order to forget what has happened. That is what we must resist. This is a golden opportunity, the invasion's silver lining. If we give in to sentiment and let the old ways come back while saying that...
MOSCOW ON ICE HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR. If you can stand the culture shock, drop by Donald Trump's glitzy Taj Mahal Casino, with its neo-Indian domes and portals, and catch this breathtaking ice-skating gala by a prizewinning troupe of Soviet athletes in dazzling exotic costumes. In Atlantic City, through...
Poles smarting under shock-therapy economic reforms seemed to look to their chief 1980s crusader against communism as an overnight savior. Walesa adviser Andrzej Machalski cautioned, "We have to get people to understand that reality consists of many small problems, not just one big one named 'the government...