Word: westernizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proved that the Suhartos broke any laws amassing such possessions. Their companies consist mostly of operating entities that turn profits, create jobs and import Western technology. Nonetheless, the code of secrecy shielding the family's fortune is breaking down...
...words elitist or subvert just once more, you'll barf. So when MOMA's Margit Rowell, who in the past has curated some intelligent shows on Constructivist sculpture, Brancusi, Antonin Artaud's drawings and other topics, affirms that Polke's vernacular has "regenerate[d] the language and meaning of Western artistic experience," and suggests that he is the Hieronymus Bosch of our day, you sigh. Polke has never shown a smidgen of the aesthetic intensity, the absorption in religious and moral experience or the staggering completeness of Bosch's universe of images. This has to be the silliest comparison since...
...Republican Representative CHRISTOPHER COX of California tells how, on April 11, 1996, Bryen warned Loral President Robert Berry not to give China any technical help without first getting State Department permission. Berry had just announced the assignment of top company engineer Wah Lim to head a panel of Western scientists who would advise China on possible causes of three rocket failures, the most recent of which had destroyed a Loral satellite. Fixing glitches in China's rocket-guidance system was in Loral's interest, but, Bryen cautioned, it could also improve the reach and accuracy of the country's ballistic...
...powerful ally last week: the U.S. Justice Department. In an antitrust suit that stunned major U.S. carriers, Justice accused No. 2, American Airlines, of driving three small discount rivals out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Trustbusters said American flooded routes served by upstarts Vanguard, Sun Jet and Western Pacific with its own new flights and illegally slashed fares below the cost of providing the seats--a practice known as predatory pricing. American, which carries 77% of all passengers who fly nonstop from the third largest U.S. airport, scaled back the flights and moved prices back up once the newcomers...
...Republican representative Christopher Cox of California tells how, on April 11, 1996, Bryen warned Loral president Robert Berry not to give China any technical help without first getting State Department permission. Berry had just announced the assignment of top company engineer Wah Lim to head a panel of Western scientists who would advise China on possible causes of three rocket failures, the most recent of which had destroyed a Loral satellite. Fixing glitches in China's rocket-guidance system was in Loral's interest, but, Bryen cautioned, it could also improve the reach and accuracy of the country's ballistic...