Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with its competitors or carving up the company into the so-called Baby Bills (see chart). A judge's findings of fact are often a good indication of how far he's willing to go. It's like looking at a construction site in its early stages, says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic. "The depth of the excavation and the strength of the foundation tell you how big the building is going to be," he says. Jackson, as Kovacic puts it, has poured a lot of concrete...
...that, by his 44th birthday, has grown into the most valuable company in the world. His success ensures that the U.S. is in the forefront of a global technological revolution, and he produces a product admired and used by millions. His reward for living the American Dream? Some smart Washington lawyers try to brand him a lawbreaker...
...newsroom drama, the Times remains one of America's top newspapers. While the paper seemed to sag during the past decade, it has regained some bite under the tutelage of Michael Parks, the Pulitzer prizewinning foreign correspondent who became editor in 1997. The paper often beat its Washington rivals in covering campaign-finance abuses last year, does solid coverage of Hollywood business, and is in the middle of a hard-hitting series on police corruption. Though its Sunday magazine remains lightweight, the spiky, liberal-leaning Book Review is winning raves...
...Millennium party at the British embassy, Washington...
...star athlete, so low. Athletes are to be thanked for the many hours of enjoyment they bring us. Our greatest achievements, however, have been directed by those who possess powerful analytical skills for critiquing both our culture and the nature of man's existence. Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X--none of these men came to prominence by way of athletics. They wielded great intellect and organized passion. We must make the creation of great minds our charge and our goal. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." DARRELL DORSEY Los Angeles...