Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presumed to think that American officials could be bought by globe-trotting tycoons. "One thing we know," he explained anthropologically, "is that the culture out of which they come doesn't draw the same bright lines between politics, government and business that we do." He was describing the Asian-American donors whose largesse had done so much to help re-elect him in 1996 and embarrass him in 1997. But he might just as well have been describing his own roots in Arkansas' cash-and-carry politics, a "culture" that Clinton brought with him to Washington and that by last...
...Friday morning, the White House released 148 pages of memos, E-mails, routing slips and other bureaucratic flotsam that painted the clearest picture yet of the courtship between donors and policymakers. For months the White House has denied that the money gushing in from wealthy Asian interests clouded anyone's foreign-policy judgment. Yet the records show that the interests of American foreign policy were sometimes on loan to the President's political fortunes--and fortune hunters...
Though he was the man at the center of the storm, Lake ended the week thrilled by the release of the documents because they showed that he had tried, if not always successfully, to keep Clinton's Asian-American friends from mucking around in foreign policy. "They're releasing everything," Lake confided to a close adviser, "and everything is going to be fine...
Panelists praised the economic reforms of recently deceased Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping last night at a forum sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research...
...angry and cowardly individual sent a hateful and bigoted electronic mail message to the 700 members of the Asian Students Association at Indiana University. Peppering his language with obscenities and racial slurs, the anonymous author demanded that the "foreign" students leave the country and go "home...