Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cynthia Edwards says Mount Vernon public schools fail to prepare students to compete with those from neighboring communities like Scarsdale, with a median income of $120,825 and a population that is 83.9 percent white, 13.7 percent Asian, and 2.2 percent black, according to the census data...
...cross," says TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. "At least now Obuchi has some news for President Clinton. It would have been terribly embarrassing for him to come to Washington with no plan to reform his country's banking sector, which many see as a crucial step to overcoming the Asian crisis...
Tall joins two other black coaches already onHarvard staffs, James White '95 on men'sbasketball and Walter W. Johnson III '71 on men'strack. John Wong, an Asian American, is anassistant coach of the softball team. In total,these four mean that roughly 3 percent ofHarvard's assistant coaches are minorities...
...Nucor Corp., a $4 billion North Carolina steelmaker, the global tumult has hit home in both ways. Nucor's exports are down, falling globally from an annual rate two years ago of 700,000 tons to the present 30,000 tons, much of which is accounted for by Asian markets. But far more worrisome is the tough competition in the U.S. market from cheap steel made in Japan, Korea and Russia. Currency devaluations in those countries have made their products cheap for American buyers, says chairman Ken Iverson. "The U.S. is the only economy left that's doing well...
More ominously, the much heralded march of market economies and democratization is stalling. Russia is tempted to return to a command economy and strongman rule. The authoritarian impulses of leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir are showing the ugly side of the "Asian values" that were touted as a ticket to prosperity and order. Instead of standing tall, the world's leaders seem hunkered down, adopting timid defensive measures rather than the forceful steps each nation needs. In every country there are very difficult domestic politics that confine leaders, and globalization surely makes life more difficult for statesmanship. To some extent...