Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Action" by picketing Home Depot, the mammoth building-supply chain (sales last year: $24 billion). Customers will be offered "rain forest tours" through the store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia...
Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), has been called in by representatives from Central America, South America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia...
...taken a real beating from the Asian meltdown, losing billions in exports," says Baumohl. "Some farmers are not going to survive the downturn. And those who do are going to have a difficult time in the next couple of years, because it will take at least that long before Asia feels comfortable buying U.S. agricultural exports again." Paging Willie Nelson...
...China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Europe, North Africa and regions of North America in search of plants for the Arboretum's collections. However, the staff concentrates mostly on collecting plants from the Boston region. Many of the accessions are the original plant introductions into North America from eastern Asia. All plants and trees are labeled...
With high earnings, surplus money accumulates easily, and many people think that savings are incidental. But practically nothing beyond a hand-to-mouth existence can be maintained without profitably invested savings. So even the desperate remedy of having artificially low interest rates to stimulate business in Asia and elsewhere is bound to fail unless accompanied by adequate voluntary or compulsory savings plans in which money is invested prudently. Excessive investment on credit in risky projects needs to be curbed. People should invest in such ideas only if they can carry the loss of the investment. JENS MEDER Auckland, New Zealand...