Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same vein, we have to make sure that we address the issue of containing the destabilizing impact of hedge-fund activities and of the huge flows of short-term capital moving at lightning speed. The worst outcome would be to let the momentum on that issue dwindle...
...will the world economy and particularly the financial sector perform in 1999? A five-member TIME Board of Economists gathered earlier this month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to give predictions. Their views were a finely balanced mix of relief, short-term optimism and long-term anxiety...
...positive sign in some emerging countries like Korea and Thailand is that foreign direct investment--the purchase of actual assets for long-term development--is robust as multinationals scoop up bargains. But in Russia, says Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard, "there's no bottom fishing at any price. It doesn't make sense if after you've gotten there you get squeezed and discover you have no rights." Moscow is finally pushing an agreement to share energy revenues with foreign companies that are desperately needed to develop this sector, but that still...
...framers in order to confine impeachment to "great and dangerous offenses" and "attempts to subvert the Constitution." In each case the Senate thereby saved the constitutional separation of powers by declining to make impeachment so easy that, as James Madison had warned at the Constitutional Convention, the presidential term would be "equivalent to a tenure during the pleasure of the Senate...
...toward frank sex talk, and the rise of Viagra brought to mind graphic images--featuring Bob Dole. Granted, in the Clinton scandal, 13 months of saturation coverage and prurient detail have conspired to make this episode especially troubling. Yet its enduring legacy may simply be the adding of the term oral sex and its vernacular synonym to the list of once avoided phrases that are now used openly--the continuation of a trend that was well under way and probably inevitable...