Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation that is dealing with its economic crisis by withdrawing from the global economy and sealing off its currency from outside trade is (a) Thailand (b) Malaysia (c) Russia (d) Japan...
Medical researchers have debated for years whether allergy shots are effective over the long term. A newly reported 10-year study says the answer is yes. Researchers in Japan monitored a group of children who received injections. More than half overcame their allergies to dust mites...
...market disappeared for that car," says chairman John Smith. But now GM is reviving--though also downsizing--its plans. Instead of 100,000 midsize cars a year, it intends to produce 40,000 seven-seat multipurpose vans annually. GM has also concluded what Smith calls "a strategic agreement" with Japan's Suzuki to "work together in the lower end of the car market," and is looking at joint projects it could undertake with Daewoo of South Korea...
...reduced. That, says Hormats, "means more bankruptcies, more unemployment and continued recession for most of 1999" as the excesses are written off. But the free fall is over: Thailand and South Korea, in his view, might begin to grow a bit by the end of 1999, while Japan will improve--though only from negative to zero growth. General recovery region-wide will not begin until...
First there was Dolly the Scottish sheep. Then, last July, came several litters of cloned mice. Now scientists at Japan's Kinki University have produced something even bigger and a good deal tastier: eight identical calves cloned from a single...