Word: surround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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China plays a vital role in the world economy. Jiang rules over more than one billion people. China possesses nuclear capabilities. For these reasons, discourse and negotiation between America and China are necessary. However, given the obvious and justified controversy that must surround a visit from the president of a country with a human rights record as poor as China's, and given the early stage of negotiations, discussion must stay in the public, governmental arena...
...store features the "full surround room," decorated with hip urban graffiti, where customers can sit on a couch and enjoy the visual and sound quality of the store's DVD system...
Ironically enough--or, alternatively, in a telling political move--the focus of the same Republican Senate has been the swirl of alleged campaign finance scandals that surround President Clinton. While our representatives are unwilling to reform the patently defunct rules governing campaign finance, they are overwhelmingly interested in 1-3 minute videotapes of the President drinking coffee...
...fall into two camps: the optimists and the pessimists. The pessimists grouse in books, at industry conferences and to every journalist in sight that the computer revolution has gone about as far as it can go. They argue that the size of the atom--and the electrons that surround it--puts a limit on how many transistors can be squeezed onto the surface of a silicon chip. The optimists, represented by Intel billionaire Gordon Moore, believe chips will keep getting smaller and faster at a predictable rate (which Moore famously described, in 1965, as a doubling of capacity every...
...subscription to AOL. (TIME is available on CompuServe; other Time Inc. publications are carried on AOL. Time Inc. has a joint venture with AOL to develop a health site called Thrive.) Case hopes for a service that is as clean, organized and trouble free as the manicured suburbs that surround AOL's Dulles headquarters. "There's an inside Silicon Valley syndrome that is out of touch with what consumers want," Case says. "Our market is everybody else." Internal research suggests "everybody else" could push AOL to 25 million members by 1999. Says Case, once a PepsiCo marketer: "We want...