Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best galleries, a group called GTI Properties has bought up many of the decaying warehouses along Harrison Ave., fixing them up and making them into lofts, studios and gallery spaces. On one of these buildings hang purple and yellow banners announcing this as the "SoWa District"--south of Washington St. The acronym has not caught...
...Washington won't be particularly surprised at coming under fire in Islamabad, which has long been considered one of the most vulnerable U.S. diplomatic outposts; in fact, most American diplomatic personnel were evacuated from the country as a precaution before last year's cruise missile strikes on Bin Laden's Afghanistan camps. But the incident is a major challenge to the authority of General Parvez Musharraf, who has done his best to assure the West that his coup will stabilize Pakistan. Foreign observers had been uncertain of how Musharraf planned to deal with the country's fundamentalist movement and with...
...taking one for the team, sacrificing herself on the altar of the Clinton administration's foreign policy? At this point, it's hard to tell. "It certainly would be convenient for the nonpolitical side of the administration to take the heat for a decision like this," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "The fact that she's a woman doesn't hurt, either." A willingness by the White House to compromise on abortion rights will probably raise some hackles. But for Clinton, it may be worth weathering some ire if he can walk away from this debate - and his presidency...
...guard. They said it read easily - too easily - and left readers devoid of intellectual nutrition. But the market has clearly proven that many Americans are attracted by simple, accessible news. Further, many of the older, more traditional papers, such as the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Washington Post have absorbed a lot of the innovations that USA Today brought to the field. All are now using color, flashier graphics and shorter stories. Even the hallowed New York Times wouldn't be far from the truth if it changed its motto to "All the News, Blurbs, Graphics and Factoids That...
...Pentagon report released last week has some in Washington claiming that America - supposedly the world's last remaining superpower - could no longer withstand two regional wars at once. It's been at least seven years since the Army has ranked one of its 10 divisions as C-4, or unfit to serve in war, but this year two divisions received that ranking, while, for the first time in recent memory, no division received the highest ranking. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) blamed the Army's failing grades on "insufficient funding and foreign policy that has committed military personnel to areas...