Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shift that Jiang must have had in mind was his firm push to get the P.L.A. out of business. For more than a decade, P.L.A. generals have been fighting to make money, not war. At one point, the military controlled nearly 20,000 companies employing more than 16 million people. Top P.L.A. brass, often ditching combat boots for tasseled loafers, were common sights at properties that included hotels, telecommunications services, pharmaceutical concerns and even airlines. Less public was the fact that some of the nation's vital naval and air bases had become smuggling hubs for everything from cigarettes...
...building a world-class military is still going to be a challenge. Largely, it's a matter of money. Though the P.L.A.'s budget shot up 13% last year, that cash went to help the army get leaner, not meaner. From a mid-1970s high of 4 million soldiers, the army now fields some 2 million. And even that massive khaki swarm is armed mostly with Mao-era weapons. Explains Brookings Institution China expert David Shambaugh: "They have no, repeat no, 1990s weapons in their inventory." Though China's procurement officials are easy to spot working the Paris Air Show...
...Erics decided the best way to beat the com system (and make some easy money in the process) was to circumvent it. There's nothing magical about the letters com they reasoned; why not just use, say, .to for Tonga...
Stupidity gets to be dangerous. It gets to be tragic. The late Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen had a famous funny line about federal spending: "A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money...
...chosen to live in London with her husband, director Pat O'Connor, raising their two sons. She had thought she could maintain her formerly bustling career, which included an Academy Award-nominated role in Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money. But "if you're not available in the U.S., you're just not seen," she says. And, besides, "I've never been a person to make sure I'm seen." She worked intermittently, of course, but became increasingly aware that "the phone hasn't rung and that you're not being offered things, and when...