Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ryan of the Asian American Civil Association in Boston criticized the College's housing decisions...
...traveler to his alma mater. That suits Lee well enough. A 1968 Cornell graduate in agriculture and economics, the Taiwan leader has lately made "private" excursions abroad the calling card of his quietly persistent efforts to break the island's isolation. Last year his golfing tours of some Southeast Asian countries, mixed with unofficial summiteering at the 19th hole, earned his style the label of vacation diplomacy...
...raid by the county's Asian Crime Task Force at the house and at a nearby printshop turned up the largest cache of illegal software ever discovered in the U.S., worth nearly $13 million at retail prices. By week's end investigators were still tallying the haul -- all Microsoft products, including the operating system called DOS 6.2 as well as the helper programs Windows and Windows for Workgroups. In March a similar raid in the same neighborhood unearthed about $4.7 million worth of phony software plus a supply of automatic weapons...
Leading the new war on software gangsters are two detectives who, like the criminals they are pursuing, have spent the past 20 years in the traditional underworld of homicides, robberies and narcotics. They are Detective Jess Bembry and Sergeant Tom Budds of the Los Angeles County sheriff's department Asian Crime Task Force. Early this year, Bembry flew up to Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters, where he took a crash course in uncovering software fakery. The company sent him home not really expecting that the department's 11-man team would come close to breaking an international counterfeiting ring...
Before last week, Washington insisted the ties with Beijing had actually steadied over recent months. "We try to maintain momentum, acknowledging that it will be a sweet and sour relationship," says Winston Lord, a former U.S. ambassador to Beijing and now Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, John Shattuck, describes China policy as "one of Clinton's underrated achievements...