Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prove he was a master of the Confucian classics and thus fit to serve the Emperor in faraway Beijing. And the boy's forefather did just that, at the very height of empire, when the Sons of Heaven, as the Emperors were called, could afford to sneer at the Western barbarians begging to trade with their Celestial Kingdom...
...used to spell it, Teng. He was twice named Man of the Year--a distinction shared by a select group of world leaders that includes Churchill, Eisenhower and Gorbachev. When Deng decided to visit the U.S. in 1979, he gave TIME his first interview with a Western magazine...
...than watchful alertness. He used this strand in his oddly matched pair of accountants, one of whom is drawn against his will into an assassination plot in Badham's Nick of Time, while the other is bedeviled by various personifications of frontier mythology in Jim Jarmusch's shaggy, satirical western, Dead...
...Asea Brown Boveri, the world's largest electrical-engineering group, Barnevik, 57, presides over a $36 billion federation of more than 1,000 companies with 217,000 employees in 140 countries. Zurich-based ABB is the biggest single investor in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, a Western pioneer in India and an aggressive player in East Asia and Latin America. For three years running it was voted "Europe's most respected company" in a poll of executives by the Financial Times newspaper. The structure Barnevik devised to run this globe-girdling behemoth "has become a new prototype...
Yung has earned a reputation as one of the few Chinese businessmen to master the art of Western finance. He also knows how to cultivate an opulent life-style. One of the 12 stewards of the oh-so-exclusive Hong Kong Jockey Club, Yung loves French wine and Thoroughbred horses; he owns Mr. Vitality, the top prizewinner in Hong Kong last year...