Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confusion over the markets' recent spins, as well as troubles in Russia and Asia, have not been had much impact on the job market in America: Unemployment remains at nearly a 20-year low of 4.5 percent--1.8 percent for college graduates...
...reception, Rudenstine said the main goal of his visit, beyond furthering his own cultural education, is to promote intellectual exchange and cooperation between Harvard and academic institutions in Asia...
Smack in the American heartland, far from both Wall Street and Asia, the 15,500 workers of Harnischfeger Industries, based in St. Francis, Wis., got slammed from both directions. A proud world beater that builds mining equipment and huge machines that produce 70% of the world's printing paper, Harnischfeger has just seen its sales to Singapore and other troubled Pacific Rim countries drop from $600 million a year to nearly zero. Its stock, riding high at $44 a year ago, was beaten down to $16 in last week's market rout, gutting the 401(k) retirement plans of many...
...strong and lean. Well-managed with a skilled and productive work force, it had prospered from the past decade's explosive growth in global freedom and commerce. But then came the currency crisis that began in Thailand in July 1997 and spread like a contagion through the rest of Asia--and last month to Russia and last week to Latin America, hammering down local currencies and slashing demand for U.S. exports. Cheaper Asian exports began grabbing more and more domestic business away from U.S. companies and sliced into their earnings. That trend finally drove down an overheated stock market, taking...
...reminder--one about as subtle as a poke in the eye--that in today's global economy, not even a healthy U.S. can quarantine its factories and offices and markets from the illnesses of countries halfway around the world. It vividly showed Americans how the turmoil in Asia and Latin America is slashing the profits of U.S. corporations, which might be forced to respond with layoffs and cutbacks in spending...