Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even so, the trip began badly, overshadowed by China's denial of visas to reporters from Radio Free Asia and the sweeping up of dissidents in Xian. Then Clinton flew to Beijing and, for the world to see, reviewed a military honor guard in the infamous Tiananmen Square. That's when a grateful Jiang turned things around. An hour or so before he and Clinton were to begin their image-setting joint press conference, a Chinese official walked up to McCurry and asked to talk about the arrangements. It's important to get them right, he said, "because...
...graced by an encouraging word from Bill Clinton or his top aides as they wrapped up their China extravaganza. Instead, while Beijing's mistakes are all but forgiven these days, Tokyo is regarded as the regional deadbeat. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who pronounced China "an island of stability" in Asia's economic crisis, reminded people in Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea that he was "deeply, deeply" concerned about the value of the yen. Other officials were tossing off background critiques of Japan (whose Finance Minister, Hikaru Matsunaga, has been referred to as Minister for the Destruction of the World Economy...
...burden of too much business, however, may not be with Boeing long. Asia's financial crash has caused carriers across the Pacific Rim to cancel or delay billions of dollars' worth of aircraft orders. Boeing, which plans to build 550 jetliners in 1998, says the downturn may cost it some 90 deliveries--which could carry a value of $10 billion--over the next five years. In Europe, Boeing rival Airbus Industrie, pushing for a 50% share of the world's $65 billion-a-year jetliner market, is wooing long-standing Boeing customers and has been bargaining hard...
Boeing was phasing in these and other reforms when aircraft orders, which had been no-shows at the start of the decade, suddenly arrived in droves. With cash-rich economies fueling air travel in the U.S. and Asia, carriers took off on a buying binge. Boeing suddenly faced the task of transforming the way it builds planes while furiously ramping up production of new jets. "I've described it as trying to change the tire on my car while going 60 miles an hour," says Condit...
...lack the tell-tale traces of wood ash. That leaves us with no evidence that our distant ancestor Homo Erectus had any idea how to set the world alight. Which is a problem, because Homo Erectus is supposed to have been busy colonizing the coldest climes of Asia back then. How on earth did he do it without a way to keep the home fires burning? "In essence," said biologist Steve Weiner, lead author of the study, "we spoil the story." Look on the bright side -- scientists now have a whole new missing link to ponder. The Zhoudoudian tourist industry...