Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soak up some sunshine by the River...
...Africa and South America many nations have deregulated gambling or privatized casinos that were once state run and now need a new look. And where better to get a feel for the Las Vegas style than in Las Vegas? So hordes of foreign gambling impresarios have trekked there to soak up the atmosphere and hire those creating it. "We're just so much bigger, and we really know what we're doing," says Len Butcher, managing editor of the trade journal Gaming Today. "The rest of the world is taking their first baby steps...
...this Midnight is worth seeing for fabulous performances like these, not to mention the beautiful footage of Savannah, the uncredited star of the show. Best to sit back and soak up the Southern sun (which Eastwood manages to capture quite beautifully), then steadily tune out everything Cusack says and does. What will emerge is the real spirit of Berendt's Savannah, simultaneously anarchic and genteel--a cocktail potent enough to survive even the worst ravages of Hollywood hackery...
...lost art in Washington, and the Clinton Administration tried hard to get it right with Jiang, the first Chinese head of state to visit in 12 years. Clinton did not want the summit to appear too cozy to domestic audiences, and he did not want Jiang simply to soak up the glory and prestige the ceremonies in Washington would provide him. The top man in a one-party dictatorship is never going to be America's cup of tea, and relations cannot be normal until the regime's brutality to its own people has ended. Even so, the U.S. relationship...
More than half of China's 125,000 state industries are hamstrung by outmoded management. Though the factories employ 110 million workers, they can barely pay them, and while these businesses soak up 90% of loans from state banks, they account for only a third of China's total industrial output. But Beijing has always been afraid of the social turmoil that could be unleashed if millions of those workers were dismissed...