Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday morning there will be a Panel Discussion about the Asian economic crisis and Japan's pivotal role in the region, with Professor of Government Steven Vogel and Kaoruhiko Suzuki '71, a partner in charge of the Asia-Pacific Practice Group of the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Los Angeles...
...know that non-Western males, particularly in anthropological studies in Africa, Asia and Nepal, who hunt or grow their food for a living, have significantly lower testosterone levels than Western males," says Bribiescas. "We think energy intake has something to do with this...
...sure I'm expert, but I've published abook (Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia,Stanford University Press, 1997). It's aboutMcDonald's in East Asia: Hong Kong, Beijing,Seoul, Tokyo. It deals with the impact of thistransnational corporation; the book is reallyabout globalism. Globalism is everywhere, but veryfew people know how to deal with it. This is anattempt to look at what might be called atransnational system to see how it's treatedlocally. You see how McDonald's has changed theculture or more likely, how it's changedMcDonald's has changed dramatically...
...that it might otherwise have managed, unemployment's rising a bit rather than sinking to still further lows, and a distinct slowdown in corporate profits--especially among companies that had been exporting $300 billion or more a year to the Asian region. On the other hand, sagging demand from Asia is contributing to a worldwide deflation (a term rarely heard since the 1930s) in commodity prices, especially oil. And that is helping to douse what little inflationary fire may be left in the U.S. economy...
Overall, there could be no better sign of the economy's internal strength than its ability to roll with a punch as hard as the one from Asia and still squeeze out a fairly good year. Some reasons for that strength: rising productivity, which is at last increasing workers' real wages without pushing up prices, and government policies that Sinai pronounces "eerily" wise. Most important, of course, is the swing from gargantuan budget deficits in the 1980s and early '90s to an expected small surplus this fiscal year, with more to come. Kaufman notes a continuing boom in business investments...