Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students, members of the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS), say they plan to take advantage of the trip's timing, given Hong Kong's expected reversion from British to Chinese control on July 1 and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's recent death...
...remarkable melange of performances drawn from the long history and varied cultures of South Asia, Ghungroo, the South Asian Students Associations's annual cultural show, was overflowing with joy and energy for its entire three-hour duration. The program united beautiful music, screwball comedy and high-power dance numbers-tied together by an informative voice-over--in a smooth rhythm calculated to keep the audience intrigued and entertained...
Percy Barnevik is in full flight, his long arms flinging one transparency after another onto the overhead projector to show figures from the latest European Union study on global competitiveness. "Pitiful," he snaps at one slide on Europe's low investment in Southeast Asia. "We are clearly losing ground," he says, slapping down a chart on the dwindling European share of world trade. When he finishes his downbeat presentation at the E.U. headquarters in Brussels, a reporter asks if he has any fresh proposals to solve the problems. "We don't need any more bright ideas. There are lots...
...group, Barnevik, 57, presides over a $36 billion federation of more than 1,000 companies with 217,000 employees in 140 countries. Zurich-based ABB is the biggest single investor in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, a Western pioneer in India and an aggressive player in East Asia and Latin America. For three years running it was voted "Europe's most respected company" in a poll of executives by the Financial Times newspaper. The structure Barnevik devised to run this globe-girdling behemoth "has become a new prototype for the post-industrial-age corporation," says Manfred Kets...
...contemporaries are easing into retirement, 66-year-old Edward Crosby (Ned) Johnson 3rd, chairman of Fidelity Investments, the largest manager of mutual funds in the world, continues to move at warp speed. The year 1997 is the one in which he intends to rechannel the huge savings pools in Asia and Europe through the global stock market, duplicating overseas the mutual-fund juggernaut he has created in the U.S. His primary target: the $9 trillion of accumulated savings in Japan, where individual investors still squirrel away much of their earnings in savings accounts that make less than 1% interest annually...