Word: globalized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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AFTER THE WARMING (PBS, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. on most stations). Environmental documentaries continue to pour forth like acid rain. This one is sparked by a lucid, witty host, James Burke (Connections), who "looks back" from the year 2050 to see what disasters global warming has wrought...
...around a long time after me, I hope" -- but concedes that his vision of the 21st century has more to do with cathode rays and satellites than with ink and paper. "Certainly in the medium future it appears there will be more growth in TV than in global print," he says. "We are focusing our expansion in electronics until we've got a better balance in our portfolio...
After a merger with a satellite TV rival in Britain averts a cash crisis for his sprawling News Corp., the global multimedia tycoon looks to video more than print for the future...
...these empirical studies, all of which focus on the industrialized world, researchers are trying to trace the evolution of government debates about acid rain, global climate change and ozone depletion. Besides looking at the scientific terms in which the debates are framed, researchers are looking at how politicians decide which course of action to take in response to environmental problems, and what role experts play in the process...
...that propelled the expansion of the past decade are now pushing in the opposite direction. The U.S. and British economies are either in a recession or on the brink of one, and corporations are shrinking their office space. At the same time, developers are feeling the effects of a global credit crunch. Finally, banks are wary of assuming greater exposure in the real estate business. James Yasser, a senior vice president at Milstein Properties in New York City, sounds a familiar refrain: "Everything went right during the '80s, and now everything is going in reverse...