Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buildings are mostly heated by a central supply system that feeds them steam through underground lines. The main fuel in Russia is-weep, amerikantsy-natural gas, piped from Soviet Central Asia and Siberia. (The Soviet Union has one-fourth of the world's natural-gas reserves, but has instituted a widespread fuel-conservation program nonetheless.) Because natural gas is the cleanest-burning fuel of all, there is no air pollution...
Emerson 105 is filled to overflowing during History 1711, "The United States and East Asia," another Fairbank course. Mary Parson '78 said yesterday that large first-day crowds reflected the course's popularity and encouraged even more students to enroll later...
...Education Min Kwan-sik, in a speech at a Korean high school in Tokyo, praised "the laudable patriotic sentiments of the large number of South Korean kisaeng and nightclub hostesses who have come to Japan and are working day and night selling their cunts for the nation." (Ampo: Japan-Asia Quarterly Review, Tokyo, April-Sept. 1976, p.9). (The vulgarism is at least as shocking in Korea or Japan as here...
...what Korea sells most of all is cheap labor, paid the second lowest wages in East Asia. In 1975, 81.9 per cent of the workers earned under $62 per month. The official figure for the cost of living for a family of 5 is $85 per month (Korean National Tax Bureau). There are no unions, so strikes, no enforcement of environmental regulations or workers' health and safety provisions. South Korea is consequently highly attractive to foreign traders and corporations. In 1974 its foreign trade accounted for 74 per cent of its GNP; whereas for even so great a trading nation...
...induced in the opposition by the period of repression to insure an easy victory. Such a victory would restore some vestige of legitimacy to Gandhi's regime in the eyes of the West, silencing the claim of Pakistani leaders that their nation is the "only democracy left in Southeast Asia," a claim that has annoyed the Prime Minister...