Word: globally
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first time in the book trade, booksellers started to sell not just "Peanuts" books but also sweatshirts, dolls and an increasing array of paraphernalia that bore the image and form of the characters in the books - an old idea called "licensing" that "Peanuts" products would turn into a global phenomenon, bringing in $1 billion a year to United Features and making Schulz richer than any popular artist in the world. USING A CROW-QUILL PEN DIPPED in ink, Schulz drew every day through the next three decades. He always worked alone, without a team of assistants. For a self-doubting...
...quite happy to step on Washington's toes to do that, increasingly staking out positions that run counter to U.S. interests on the world stage - rebuilding Soviet-era relationships from Baghdad to Havana, openly discussing a strategic alliance with China and India to curb U.S. power on the global stage and, perhaps most important to Washington, looking to secure new orders for his country?s arms industry. Only days before the U.S. presidential election, Russia withdrew from an agreement with Washington to refrain from selling weapons to Iran. The U.S. has yet to react. And the Bush administration...
...Horizon: Plenty of challenges to U.S. interests on the global stage, particularly over missile defense. Putin currently has most of the European NATO members in his camp on this one right now, and turning them around will take some skillful diplomacy. Moscow and Beijing recently vowed to expand their own missile capabilities if Washington proceeds with the missile shield plan, which may make most U.S. allies dig their heels in for fear of reviving the arms race. There are also looming crises for Western interests along Russia?s borders, with Moscow likely to turn up the economic and political heat...
...Bush's fault; he's just reading the headlines aloud and softening up the ground a little for his $1.3 trillion tax cut. It's not Clinton's fault, though it's still on his watch; the economy, with a lot of help from global doldrums (Japan just keeps getting worse and worse), is coming in for a rate-hike induced landing after a torrid spring...
...Scientists estimate that unless emissions of CO2 and similar compounds are controlled, global temperatures by the end of the next century will rise how many degrees Fahrenheit...