Word: turmoils
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First came the Asian Miracle, as booming Pacific Rim countries showed the rest of the world how to grow. Now comes the Asian Meltdown, as turmoil across the region shakes markets from Hong Kong to Wall Street. Last week it was Japan and South Korea that gave the world a jolt. No sooner had rumors of a possible South Korean collapse swept out of Seoul than the Japanese yen and the Tokyo stock market plunged to their lowest levels in two years. Across the Pacific, the ill winds from Asia blew the Dow Jones industrial average into a 157-point...
FRANK GIBNEY JR., our Tokyo bureau chief, evaluates the impact of turmoil in Japan and South Korea on the U.S. economy. Gibney, who recently wrote about the turnaround at Sony, is accustomed to looking at the big picture. He learned young: his father, Frank Gibney Sr., ran the Tokyo bureau from 1949 to '51. This week Gibney--Junior, that is--draws on dispatches from Rahul Jacob in Seoul, Adam Zagorin in Washington and Jane Van Tassel in New York City to put into perspective the problems in Tokyo and Seoul. "You can't turn on the TV or pick...
...placid exterior, however, is a stubborn defiance that could spell disaster for his defense. This week, as jury selection got under way in Sacramento, Calif., for his trial on federal charges of killing two men and seriously wounding two others with package bombs, Kaczynski's defense strategy is in turmoil. The first public sign of trouble was the Harvard graduate's abrupt refusal to be examined by prosecution psychiatrists. But Time has learned that he initially resisted examination by even his own doctors. This stance might be endorsed by the "Unabomber Manifesto," which denounces anyone who attempts to "control human...
...make an omelet? Lunching at Restaurant Daniel, a four-star establishment in Manhattan ("I never cook anymore"), Guarnaschelli dismisses Corn's complaint: "I thought maybe she could deliver a great chapter. It wasn't what I could use. That's all there is to it." What about all the turmoil surrounding the preparation of the new Joy, most of which has been blamed on her? "I'm emotional, but I'm not difficult," she counters. "I'm dramatic, I'm intense, but people like to work with me." Over a table laden with desserts, including le vacherin minute et meringue...
...friend of Bill Clinton's, Klein stepped into the void left by the 1993 suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster and helped the First Family navigate Whitewater turmoil. He steered the Supreme Court nominations of Ruth Bader Ginzburg and Stephen Breyer through Congress before joining Justice in 1995 as understudy to then antitrust chief Anne Bingaman...