Word: growing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asia were among the most dynamic and prosperous in the whole world. Their progress and prosperity were real. Employment rates were high; per capita income increased steadily. From poor agricultural countries, they had become highly industrialized nations, producing quality high-tech goods for markets worldwide. They were set to grow and grow...
...free-marketeers might be reminded that countries do not grow and develop by accident. The environment must be conducive to growth. For this, the government must play a role. All governments are corrupt to one degree or another. But what is certain is that if a country does well, the government cannot be totally corrupt and incompetent. The governments of East Asia are far from perfect, but no one can say they did not bring prosperity as well as real, tangible and personally felt benefits to their people. Such was the progress and potential that investors came in droves...
...president's actions reveal that he certainly feels that as long as he can provide for the people in his official capacity, he can play by his own rules. For this assumption, our collective outrage should grow every time we see our president apologize in one instance and deny in the next. It is this disrespect for the people that makes the president fundamentally unfit for the high office which has been entrusted to him. And it is for this disrespect that he must either resign or be removed from power so that our nation can take that high office...
...only as I grow older and struggle with my own plans and desires to "save the world" from the evils of racism, sexism, homophobia and capitalism, that I have begun to see this man as a shining example of what can be achieved through passion and perseverance. In 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 28 years. He was sent there because he chose to fight against repression. He did what so many activists and proto-activists claim, by struggling to bring change to a country which exploited its labor, wrongfully imprisoned its citizens and encouraged full-scale segregation...
...stricken banking system is the financial equivalent of a recovering alcoholic's "just one drink." "Once you start printing money, it's very tempting to keep printing more because you need to pay unpaid wages," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "Fear of social unrest, which will grow if the government is seen to be bailing out the banks but not paying wages, adds to the pressure to print more...