Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asian American Association sponsored its largest event of the year this weekend, the 10th Annual Harvard Asian American Intercollegiate Conference...
Conference guests, named "Heroine/Hero 2000" honorees, included author Lan Samantha Chang; J.D. Hokoyama, president and executive director of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics; Susan Mollway, a Harvard Law School graduate who is the first Asian Pacific American female judge to serve in federal district court; Professor Gary Okihiro, director of the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University; Benjamin Sun, president and CEO of Community Connect Inc., a New York-based company that runs AsianAvenue.com and film director Renee Tajima-Pena...
...late 1996 the warp-speed growth in many of these nations began to slow--an inevitable turn in the business cycle. But the stutter was enough to panic a few investors, who headed for the exits. That set off a rapid spiral of defaults that became known as the Asian Contagion. Thailand's problems quickly became Indonesia's, then Korea's, in a dangerous daisy chain that is still looping together--witness last month's shuddering devaluation of the Brazilian real...
...White House has also played a role in averting crises before they appeared on the radar screens. There were times in the past year when countries including Egypt, South Africa and Ukraine were possibly just days away from becoming the next victims of Asian Contagion. But patient and highly secret intervention by Vice President Al Gore helped change policy and avert collapses that would surely have shaken global confidence again...
...there was no 11th-hour reprieve. Her tree was among the first of 470 maples, ashes, elms and horse chestnuts to be cut down, chipped up and burned in an effort to stop the spread of a new and unwelcome Chinese import: the Asian long-horned beetle. It's the first infestation since the pest was originally identified in the U.S. in 1996, when 2,400 trees in Brooklyn and Amityville, N.Y., were lost. But the fast-moving critters could be anywhere. "It's quite possible that other places have them," says Joe McCarthy, Chicago's senior forester, "and just...