Word: existing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Larry Summers could take steps to rescue the rest of the world, including Russia, South Korea, Brazil and Thailand, but not Indonesia. The loans from the IMF and the World Bank have not been enough to stop massive layoffs. Ailing banks, high interest rates and many other problems still exist. If our country falls, the rest of the world will feel the effect. If these three men can help save Indonesia, then they really are the Committee to Save the World. JOHN SIMON Jakarta...
AIDS. Fifty years ago, it didn't exist. Fifteen years ago, a few doctors and public health officials noticed the first cases. Within a few years, it was clear that it had reached epidemic status. It has now killed almost 14 million people around the world...
...their wind-tunnel experiments to design the first effective airplane props--a pair of 8-ft. propellers, carved out of laminated spruce, that turned in opposite directions to offset the twisting effect on the machine's structure. And when they discovered that a lightweight gas-powered engine did not exist, they decided to design and build their own. It produced 12 horsepower and weighed only...
...Harvard team also contended that although regional conflicts do exist in the post-Cold War era, the scale is much smaller and there is a lack of technology involved in many conflicts that makes the use of nuclear weapons less likely...
...told of a woman whose parents-who had kept perfect bank records-died at Auschwitz. After World War II, when she tried to retrieve their accounts, she was repeatedly turned away by the bank, which told her that she needed father's death certificate, which did not exist...