Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lamba, a new American citizen, says that in India sickness is seen as both a spiritual and a biological phenomenon, and spiritual counselors like the one she visited are viewed as more mainstream than they are in Western society...
Roberts is referring to the first of two trends that are driving the telecommunications industry toward consolidation. Deregulation--in the U.S., Western Europe and increasingly in South America and Asia--is turning cozy, inefficient state-owned monopolies into telephone free-for-alls. The second trend is technology, which has dissolved borders and allowed telecommunications companies to branch into cable television and information services. "The logic is simple," says James Ross, a telecommunications analyst for the ABN AMRO Hoare Govett brokerage firm in London. "In the end, the industry is going to be dominated by a small number of large players...
...Bill Clinton is still campaigning. He is still working the rope lines, empathizing like all get-out. He astonished NATO foreign ministers when he answered a question about the long-term military security of Western Europe by saying his Administration had put 100,000 policemen on the street and created 10.5 million new jobs. And Clinton continues to stake out the middle ground by bringing up tiny but symbolic issues like school uniforms--practicing what some analysts call "the politics of miniaturization...
...Zairean provincial capital were patrolled by Tutsi rebels. Bukavu's Catholic Archbishop was ambushed and murdered. And the town's "very fine airstrip" had become a fulcrum in an undeclared war between Rwanda and Zaire, a conflict that could precipitate the dismemberment of Zaire, a country the size of Western Europe. Caught in the cross fire were more than half a million Hutu refugees who have been huddling in squalid camps along Lake Kivu for the past two years. By week's end, the fighting had cut almost all of them off from emergency relief, and aid workers were...
DIED. GEORGE OSLIN, 97, inventor in 1933 of the singing telegram; in Delray Beach, Florida. As the public relations director for Western Union, Oslin sent the first singing telegram to crooner Rudy Vallee on the singer's birthday. Today Western Union delivers singing telegrams by telephone--sung only to the tune of Happy Birthday...