Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demand for feed grain has outstripped domestic supply. In recent years, China has become the world's largest importer of American wheat. One reason is modernization. As Asian countries like China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea industrialize, less land is cultivated for grain crops, and the populations begin to adopt Western-style diets rich in meat and eggs. The upshot: grain supplies drop and prices rise. "What this may mean for American consumers," says TIME's Tom Curry, "Is that, even though the grain itself is only 18 cents of the $3.39 retail price they pay for corn flakes, they...
...says. "China is trying to build a predictable and peaceful relationship along all of its borders. Beijing wants to assure a peaceful environment so it can focus on economic modernization. For Yeltsin, it is important to have peace in the east while he deals with NATO expansion on his western border." While the border agreement is the most significant of the deals reached by Yeltsin and Jiang during the summit, the two leaders also reached common ground on a number of other issues, including increased communication and cooperation in developing nuclear energy. Increasing the $5.5 billion in trade between...
...progress Yeltsin has made with reform efforts without overtly saying the communists would not achieve those goals." Clinton and Yeltsin tried to avoid controversial issues such as NATO expansion, the war in Chechnya, and the sale of nuclear technology to Iran. "For Russians, it is pleasing to see a Western leader like Clinton not criticize Russia for doing something wrong," Donnelly says. "Clinton was very careful not to harp on Russia over the economy, foreign policy or Chechnya." Clinton did meet with a group of opposition leaders, including Communist Party candidate Genadi Zyuganov, but gave his only...
...supply of idling aircraft is matched by a supply of idling airline executives. "The airline business is tough," says ValuJet's Jordan, "but it's all we really know." Jordan is a former president of Continental. KIWI CEO Jerry Murphy spent 24 years at Pan Am; Western Pacific's chairman, Ed Beauvais, started America West; and Air 21's chairman, Mark Morro, co-founded and was president of Wings West Airlines. They have seen, up close, airlines struggling and going under...
...this team loses any of the four play-off series it needs to win to reclaim its title from the Houston Rockets, who borrowed it for two seasons while Michael Jordan shagged fly balls. "The Bulls," says New Jersey Nets forward Jayson Williams, "are like Clint Eastwood in a western, Arnold Schwarzenegger in an action movie. You can shoot at them, you may even wound them. But guess who's gonna be standing there when the credits roll?" No way da Bulls lose...