Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favored-nation status. Such a move enjoys growing support in the Senate, where a resolution calling for full diplomatic ties will be introduced soon. The resolution is popular for reasons that are not only economic but strategic: the end of the cold war has created an East Asian power vacuum in which Vietnam could play a key role. Swollen by an astonishing economic boom of its own, China appears eager to muscle into that vacuum. Its recent moves to garrison disputed islands in the South China Sea have even led to arguments by top Vietnamese officials that the U.S. uphold...
This made some Japanese permanently cynical: they would never believe anything again. But the spiritual vacuum of the postwar years provided fertile ground for all kinds of new cults and creeds. Most of them were organized around a charismatic figure. It was as though the demise of the Emperor as a god produced many little emperors, all with their own worshippers...
...Russia reverts to its traditional expansionist policies, in the absence of NATO, a nationalist state will be tempted to extend its control into the power vacuum to the west. But if the U.S. extends its security guarantees to the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians, Russia will find Eastern Europe more than it can swallow...
...equity manager in Hong Kong. By 1993 Heath had resigned and the Tokyo operation had been through four top managers in three years. "They were a wreck," says a former Barings trader. "No one was really running the show." In time Leeson would take full advantage of that power vacuum...
Frisbie wasted staffers' time on irrelevantmatters like an office vacuum sign-up list, Hopkesaid...