Word: asianness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today's school system is 49 percent black, 26 percent Hispanic, 15 percent white and 9 percent Asian, essentially ensuring somewhat diverse schools regardless of the assignment plan, Payzant said...
Dawn Lee '01, an East Asian Studies concentrator in Leverett House, is interning at MSNBC Interactive this summer...
...week?s numbers give Greenspan a perfect reason not to listen. "There?s just no justification for a hike right now," says Baumohl, and plenty of reasons for maintaining the status quo ? mainly that a tightening in the U.S. could make things difficult for neighbors to the south. "The Asian crisis may be over," he says, "but the Latin American one isn?t. Greenspan doesn?t want it erupting and hurting the U.S." Funny thing ? those same fears, plus some standard nail-biting over earnings reports, are muting what might have been a big inflation celebration on Wall Street. Which...
What goes down must go up. That seemingly inexorable law of economics is now pulling many Asian countries out of the slump that only two years ago threatened to disrupt the entire global economy. Throughout the region stock markets are on the rebound and currencies are on the rise, leading to renewed confidence that the worst is over and business will pick up further. But it may be too early to declare victory. "What is really happening," says TIME business senior editor Bill Saporito, "is that the Asian economies are coming off the bottom. Even when you do nothing...
...Nothing, however, is what some financial experts fear many Asian countries have done ? at least, where it counts the most: clearing out the backscratching and corruption that had led bank after bank, and corporation after corporation, to take on bad debts. In addition, in many Asian economies there remain real questions as to whether corporate and government accounting books reveal the true state of affairs. Though some foreign investors have started to trickle back, "there remains great reluctance to do so," says Saporito. "We are witnessing an inevitable pendulum swing, but if Asian countries want to gain real momentum, they...