Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admit Burma to their group ? Burma being one of the less democratic countries in the region ? and decided to drive their currency values down. ASEAN currencies have been going into tailspin against the dollar of late; Thailand, for one, had to be bailed out by the IMF to the tune of $16.7 billion. Still smarting, the Asian Tigers are screaming for Soros' head on a plate...
...could Soros have been the culprit? It is certainly possible ? this is, after all, a man who dabbles daily in currency markets to the tune of $1 trillion. But according to TIME Business writer Sribala Subramanian, his Quantum fund merely functions like a de facto Central Bank. Like any good government banker, Soros just goes where the money is ? following the market, rather than any political motive. Perhaps the Malaysian PM should consider a refresher course in Econ...
...throated, time-tinted clang and roar of a bianzhong, a fully intact set of 65 ceremonial bronze chimes entombed in China's Hubei province in 433 B.C. and dug up by amazed archaeologists 2,400 years later. Then the Hong Kong Philharmonic steals in with a simple yet radiant tune in D major--the key of Beethoven's Ode to Joy--and a children's choir begins to sing, accompanied by the soft throb of Chinese drums pounding out an African-flavored beat...
...Lilith tour and the coffeehouse-pop crowd can help halt pop's garbage-chute slide. Such music, on the surface, is gentle enough to slip onto radio playlists, but down deep there are ideas, there is emotion, there is life: the haunting, melancholic feel of McLachlan's new tune Angel; Fiona Apple exploring her post-rape trauma on her heart-rending Sullen Girl; Erykah Badu imagining the life of a gangsta's girlfriend on her soulful Otherside of the Game. Other promising acts from this school are on the way. An advance copy of British trip-hop folkie Pauline Taylor...
...drive the company car. Ordinarily this wouldn't be a cause for worry, but Cooper has reason to be nervous. Hundreds of his co-workers and more than a thousand reporters will be looking over his shoulder--to say nothing of the 25 million people who are expected to tune in live on the World Wide...