Word: overlying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Red Hot + Blue (ABC). To benefit AIDS research, 20 rock stars took a crack at Cole Porter, and several contributed striking videos as well. Among the best: David Byrne's high-spirited collage of faces for Don't Fence Me In and Annie Lennox getting misty-eyed over home movies...
It is more than just a bank. For 125 years, the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. has been virtually synonymous with the crown colony. Its 42-story headquarters looms over the central financial district, housing what is often referred to as Hong Kong's "real" government. The bank prints 83% of...
Chairman William Purves explained that the bank was hoping to reassure shareholders and financial markets, which are increasingly apprehensive over the colony's reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Said he: "I do have confidence in the future of Hong Kong, but sadly I cannot convince others." Hong Kong's...
These guidelines, however, remain preliminary. If the federal parliament decides to admit all citizens who are mentioned in the records into the archives, as some government officials suggest, there will be a flood of inquiries from those who want to see their former oppressors and secret accusers brought to justice...
Beneath the retrenchment and return to basics one can see the mark of American Calvinism, as consumers pull back and repent what many now consider the evil excesses of the Reagan years. The doomsayers seem to be savoring the chance to put priorities straight. "When the stock market crashed in...