Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Center for Democracy & Technology, a Washington advocacy organization, is leading a campaign to make information on the growing pool of safety tools more widely available on the Web. Parents need to be able to find this information in a central, organized place, says executive director Jerry Berman...
...best friends from high school will be--or the romantic appeal of Florence--where my other best friend from high school will be. They're planning to meet up at the end of the summer in England. I'm not even privy to the upward political mobility that Washington, D.C.--the summer of home of my best friends at Harvard--seems to hold...
...Saturday, following NATO's overnight bombing of China's Belgrade embassy that killed four people and wounded 26. The error -- which NATO officials said resulted from an intelligence failure in which the building was wrongly identified as a Yugoslav arms procurement office -- may further cloud the troubled relationship between Washington and Beijing. China denounced the act as "barbaric," demanded that NATO immediately halt its bombing campaign. Russia backed that call, insisting that the peace plan agreed with NATO leaders Thursday could not be implemented before the air campaign was halted...
...embassy strike certainly adds to the geopolitical cost of the Kosovo campaign. NATO's decision to bomb Yugoslavia brought Washington's relations with Moscow to a ten-year low, and the latest tragedy may strengthen the hand of anti-Western elements within the Chinese leadership. NATO now faces the increasingly complicated challenge of maintaining its hard-won accord with Russia over the peace process at the same time as maintaining pressure on Belgrade. "NATO won't easily suspend the bombing because it knows it may be politically unable to restart it," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The alliance...
...WASHINGTON: Like calling in the cat to get rid of the mouse, federal antitrust regulators are pleased with at least one aspect of AT&T's new role as the Cable Guy -- AT&T will be using its cable lines to provide local phone service, creating needed competition for its old kin, the Baby Bells. But regulators are worried about how to bell the cat. "Overnight, AT&T has not only become the No. 1 cable company but also the de facto standard-bearer for the future of telecom," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumhol. "They...