Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken a hard fall, and no level of society has escaped the pain. The population of more than 200 million people has seen per capita income drop from $1,200 to $300 almost overnight. Tinted-glass towers in the business district of what was last year one of Asia's hottest cities for investors now stand virtually empty. Corporations have no way of repaying the $70 billion they borrowed from foreign banks, and much business has simply ceased. At the other end of the economic scale, poor households have no way of paying the escalating prices for rice and cooking...
India also takes note as Washington soft-pedals its criticism when China, another appetizing market for the U.S., continues to sell ballistic-missile equipment to Pakistan, merely slapping Beijing on the wrist. An arms race has been raging in South Asia, and "the U.S. has not made much effort to control it," says Henry Sokolski, the Pentagon's top proliferation expert during the Bush Administration. Clinton's nonproliferation team wisely focuses on reducing the Russian stockpile and keeping loose nukes away from rogue states like Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Libya. The threat of a nuclear breakout in India...
James Lin, the president of the Harvard Law Asia Society, a student organization, said international students often face unique challenges when applying to prestigious law schools abroad...
...Having done a big European thing last summer,and doing two trips to Asia this year, I think weneed a South American trip next, in terms offields developing," he said...
...kind of cute, actually, how they came to be an item: following some small talk last year over a possible joint venture in Latin America or maybe Asia, Juergen Schrempp, 53, chairman of doughty Daimler-Benz, invited Chrysler chief Robert Eaton, 58, to spend some quiet time alone during the crowded Detroit Auto Show in January. Schrempp said he liked Chrysler a lot and suggested that maybe they should consider going...