Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planet advertises itself with a swoosh. And even as we pride ourselves on our exfoliating identities, our names seem ever more beside the point. The handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese, for example, was perhaps most significant as the disappearance of a culture of zany hybrids--Sir Run Run Shaw, Philemon Choi and Freedom Leung--into one where there are 4,000 Zheng Yangs in a single city, and Wangs and Zhengs alone account for 160 million people, or more than live in Britain, France and Spain combined. The 20th anniversary of Star Wars is the 20th anniversary...
...careful to keep a line open to BT, which Ebbers had derided as a vanquished foe three weeks ago. Lee has talked over the years with BT chairman Sir Iain Vallance and MCI's Roberts about a possible combination of the three telecom giants. Lee stressed last week that he would welcome BT, which has held a 20% stake in MCI since 1993, in a combined GTE and MCI. "We share the global vision of our industry that brought MCI and British Telecom together," Lee noted in a "Dear Bert" letter to Roberts...
...Heinrich (Pitt), glamour boy of an empire mad for mountain climbing, joins an expedition to scale Nanga Parbat in eastern India. The troupe is led by Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), but Heinrich will say sir to no man. He pays no attention to his own severe pain, little more to the safety of his comrades. Failing to reach the summit, they are taken as prisoners of war by His Majesty's Government in India. Four times Heinrich tries to escape; each time security is increased. When Peter determines to get out, Heinrich thumbs a ride on the jail break...
...sir. Whatever you feel safe...
...were attacked last year by Sir Robert May, science advisor to the British government, who accused the awards of making light of serious research and damaging science...