Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...richest nation is threatened by the financial crisis that has hammered and humiliated the wildfire economies of Asia. As South Korea slid close toward insolvency last week, the Japanese were looking toward their leaders, and foreign investors were looking to Japan for signals that the Pacific Rim's chief Asian power could buffer the quakes rattling the region's interlocking systems...
...Meanwhile, there were further indications that Japan was succumbing to regional woes: The government reported that Japan's trade surplus was up 59 percent in November from the previous year, yet exports to Asian neighbors dropped for the first time in more than three years. The reason: Weaker Asian currencies are making Japanese goods more expensive, while slower economic growth in nearby countries is cutting into demand for goods...
...Asian Woes Send Dow Plunging Bad news from Korea, Japan and Hong Kong sparked a strong sell-off in the early hours of trading, but by early afternoon there were signs of Wall Street rallying...
This year, 22 percent of those admitted early are Asian Americans, and nearly 5 percent are Africans Americans...
Leverett House: Roy E. Bahat, social studies; Hsin Chau, East Asian studies; Joseph I. Levinson, government; Geoffrey C. Rapp, economics; Nikola D. Simunovic, social studies; Connie W. Tang, applied mathematics...