Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moves beyond the melting pot. As Asians bring vitality and a renewed sense of purpose to the region, is history repeating itself with a twist? Just as Europeans took the region from Native Americans, is the West being won all over again by Korean entrepreneurs, Japanese financiers, Indian doctors, Filipino nurses, Vietnamese restaurateurs and Chinese engineers...
...when U.S. jet fighters from Clark kept rebel air power grounded, caught a lot of domestic heat over her dependence on the U.S. She may have used Cheney's visit to show some distance. While the U.S. bases are often picketed by leftists, polls show that a majority of Filipinos want them to stay. They provide 68,000 Filipino jobs and inject $507 million annually into the economy...
...Filipino-Americans, the second largest Asian ethnic group in the U.S., are among the most underrepresented of all minority groups in admission to selective colleges...
...favors" pledge is generally overlooked. She has cut into Marcos' "crony capitalism" by dismantling sugar and coconut monopolies and beginning -- however clumsily -- to privatize government-owned companies that produce everything from cars to cement. But she has been unable to dispel some well-entrenched assumptions. "For any average Filipino, if he gets a good job, his family would expect to benefit," explains Jose Luis Alcuaz, a longtime ally of Aquino's assassinated husband Benigno...