Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States today announced completion of a secret deal with Kazakhstan -- a one-time Soviet republic -- to transfer more than 1,000 pounds ofbomb-grade uraniumout of the Central Asian country and into a U.S. energy plant in Tennessee -- a move that U.S. officials said was reassuring amid a burgeoning black market for U.S.S.R. nuclear materials. "One more threat of nuclear terrorism and proliferation has been removed from the world," President Clinton said. Defense Secretary William Perry, who announced the deal, said the cache constituted enough to make about two dozen nuclear warheads. More than 30 U.S. engineers who flew...
This is not good enough for human-rights advocates in the U.S. Deborah Leipziger, of the Council on Economic Priorities in New York City, rejects the argument often heard in Asia that Americans are trying to impose Western standards in order to make Asian products less competitive. "I don't buy it," she says, "because there are universal standards of human rights." < Child labor should be banned, and there should be an international standard for calculating fair wages, she says. More specifically, Sidney Jones of Human Rights Watch/Asia insists American executives ought to protest to the Indonesian government about...
...most important question is how to make Asian governments more responsive. To this the Administration has an answer: engagement over the long term. "We'll stay engaged," says a State Department official, "and keep articulating our view of what would represent progress for us." A White House official argues that economic growth and prosperity pave the way for better social and political conditions. "Coming into the mainstream ((of nations)) and shifting to markets," he says, "does in fact create trends that favor human rights...
...Asian-born scientists, a sense of duty, the tug of shared culture, the need to care for aging parents and a thousand other imponderables influence the decision to return. The recent wave of corporate downsizing and research cutbacks in the U.S. has also tipped the scales. A generous retirement package helped persuade Lee to leave his comfortable sinecure in Berkeley and take on the challenge of leading Academia Sinica. "Taiwan needs me," says Lee, "while to the University of California, it doesn't make that much difference whether I'm there...
...scientists returning to Asia bring more than just a Westernized preference for cappuccino over tea. They also carry with them a penchant for challenging the status quo. Until recently, Asian funding agencies still doled out research money according to traditional egalitarian formulas, with little regard for quality. Now they are being pressured to establish peer-review panels staffed by scientific experts to gauge the merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors...