Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While on staff at the State Department, Vernon was a member of the Marshall Plan team that guided the economic revival of Europe in the aftermath of WWII, and he helped negotiate Japan into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
...succeeding administrations have pumped Indonesia with military aid in the years since. But thus far in the current crisis, the Clinton administration has done a good job prodding Indonesia along the road to peace in East Timor. Pressure from the U.S., Indonesia's second-largest trading partner after Japan, helped convince Habibie to agree to a referendum in the first place and to permit peacekeepers. It may again prove invaluable as the specifics of the UN mission are worked...
...Hours worked per person in Japan in 1995, down from...
...Still, the idea of essentially bribing North Korea not to cause trouble has become part of Washington?s playbook since a 1994 deal that dismantled Pyongyang?s weapons-grade nuclear energy program in exchange for substantial energy and food aid from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. "We may be buying them off, but that?s the cheapest thing we can do at the moment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even if we were to send troops and threaten them, that would be unlikely to ease tensions. And the money does influence them." In these wacky post-Cold...
...other animal intentionally puts itself in peril. "The human race is particularly risk taking compared with other species," he says. He describes risk takers as the Type T personality, and the U.S. as a Type T nation, as opposed to what Farley considers more risk-averse nations like Japan. He breaks it down further, into Type T physical (extreme athletes) and Type T intellectual (Albert Einstein, Galileo). He warns there is also Type T negative, that is, those who are drawn to delinquency, crime, experimentation with drugs, unprotected sex and a whole litany of destructive behaviors...