Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just Japan that has a lot at stake. Still-limping tigers like Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore need healthy Japanese banks to lend their businesses money, and free-spending Japanese consumers to buy their exports. Japan, in its current state, has neither. The once-emulated economic juggernaut has been reduced to the humiliating status of an export-dumping nation, irking the U.S. profoundly in the process and affording no help whatsoever to its shell-shocked Asian neighbors...
...someone who's about to finish four years of studying physics and move to Indonesia to work with local banks, Jeremy B. Tobacman '99 seems surprisingly unfazed by graduation...
Indeed, Tobacman may be switching from quantum mechanics to community banking and moving from Eliot House to Indonesia, but he won't be going through any drastic changes...
Over the past four years Tobacman studied physics while spending his spare time working in homeless shelters and doing research for a professor in the economics department. Though a seemingly eclectic college career, it is one that flows naturally into his work in Indonesia...
...country whose 127 million voters are scattered across 14,000 islands from a military dictatorship into a democracy was never going to be easy, but the General Election Committee had promised to complete half the count by Tuesday -? and by Wednesday night it had tallied only 7 percent. Indonesia?s stock exchange hit a two-year record high on Tuesday, buoyed by the strong showing of opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, but it resumed its slide Wednesday as everyone from opposition leaders, Western election monitors and even by the leader of the military-backed ruling party, President B. J. Habibie, expressed...