Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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African-American studies, women's studies and Asian studies have broken into academic prominence in the last few decades, but to the consternation of many, a new field of scholarship that sees these as its logical predecessors is emerging: whiteness studies...
...company has $500 million of contracts signed or under negotiation in the Middle East, involving telecommunications for governments; possibilities for as much as $2 billion of work in India, some of it building, owning and operating a power plant; and air-traffic-control projects in China, Malaysia and other Asian countries. And she unabashedly credits "a combination of myself and our expertise...
...November meeting, and TIME's economists think it will continue to do so, or at worst will raise rates only slightly. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan might like to boost them more to head off any future inflation, but he will likely fear that that would worsen the impact of Asian troubles on U.S. financial markets...
More than the fate of South Korea has dropped into the laptops of the technocrats from Washington. The Asian crisis brewing since the summer has reached the Code Red stage. With Thailand and Indonesia receiving IMF bailouts, the fund has become the main hope for containing the East Asian upheavals before they spread to Japan, and from there perhaps to the U.S. Thailand, which came running to the IMF this summer, is getting a $17 billion aid package. Indonesia will get about $23 billion. South Korea initially asked for $20 billion, but last week its Finance Minister indicated the package...
...fears that the crisis could move to Japan are very real. Those Asian nations are major consumers of goods from Japan, which is suffering from its own prolonged recession and instability caused by overextended financial institutions. Japan's vulnerability was brought home last week by the collapse of the 100-year-old Yamaichi Securities, that nation's largest business failure since the end of World...