Word: rapid
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...relish the crisis. While Chrysler's road will be rough, the company is in far better shape than it was when Iacocca took over in 1978. This time Chrysler will benefit from its diversification into financial services, which provided $284 million in profits last year, and from its rapid expansion into Europe. By selling Gulfstream, 45% of its shares in the Japanese automaker Mitsubishi and other assets, Chrysler will generate more than $2 billion to add to its cash kitty of $2.2 billion. While Chrysler's share of the U.S. car and truck market slid half a percentage point last...
...encouraged by its Pacific allies, remains essentially in a holding posture toward Asia, the region's rapid political and economic changes raise questions about the durability of current security arrangements. Writing in the Philippine Star, former Aquino press secretary Teodoro Benigno, a respected political analyst, posed a provocative scenario. "The rules of the big power game will change," he predicted, "as America weakens, Japan resurges, and the Chinese giant starts to bellow." The 21st century, in his view, will be "an Asian century." Even if he proves right, the U.S. military presence might help determine whether the coming changes will...
...much worse than the Millis can things get? Their lighter-than-airhead lyrics and freeze-dried hip-hop rhythms combine pop and pap in tunes for instant consumption and rapid oblivion. Pilatus, the son of a German striptease dancer and an American soldier, was raised in Munich by an adoptive family. Morvan was born in Paris ("My father installed the air conditioning; my mother was a chemical biologist"). They hooked up in 1985, when both were in Los Angeles...
...Lawrence's optimism is guarded at best. Like many local communists, she appears to have been left somewhat disoriented by the rapid collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe...
...troops each in Europe's central zone and for the U.S. to station an additional 30,000 elsewhere on the Continent. Only four days earlier in Moscow, Baker had listened to Mikhail Gorbachev reject any proposal setting unequal European troop deployments. The turnaround was so complete, and so rapid, that top U.S. officials pronounced themselves "astonished...