Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...captain's commission along with command of the Soviet-led ethnic Korean battalion. In Khabarovsk he married Kim Chong Suk, who had joined Kim Il Sung's guerrillas in 1935 and had followed him into exile. After the Soviets entered the war in 1945 and occupied Japan's northeast Asian territories, Kim and 66 fellow officers were sent to Wonsan to form the core of a North Korean high command. It was then, according to former high-ranking Soviet officials, that Kim was selected by local Soviet commanders as Moscow's choice to become Korean leader...
...holding Germans to a single goal before a crowd of 63,117 gathered in a great, poured-concrete tureen called Soldier Field. At the half, the temperature broke upon your cheek, hot enough for the back of a wristwatch to singe, and I, the only blue eye among distinguished Asian bleacher mates, remarked that someone could stir us and call us shabu-shabu. A mirthless response forced me to note that levity is a poor camouflage for the unlettered, even in sports...
Despite such efforts, none of the palliatives is likely to have much effect on a work force that is suffering from rising anger and alienation. "Workers feel betrayed," says an Asian economist based in Beijing. A survey conducted two years ago by the A.C.F.T.U. among 210,000 laborers at 400 state enterprises in 17 cities found that only 12% of workers felt satisfied with their condition, while 51% thought their status in society had fallen to an all-time...
...numbers speak for themselves: a record count of Asian American, Black, Hispanic and Mexican American student's were admitted to Harvard's Class...
...last week, the Class of 1998 included a record 147 Blacks, a record 325 Asian-Americans and 712 women...