Word: ki
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...many, that slump is already here. Jung Jun Ki, 65, owns a factory south of Seoul that makes plastic containers such as lunch boxes and trash cans, which are produced using oil-derived polypropylene. Jung, whose factory employs about 50 people, says as many as 40% of Korea's small and mid-sized plastics manufacturers have gone out of business in the past 18 months because, in a highly competitive industry, they've been unable to raise prices to compensate for higher production costs?the price of polypropylene has soared from $800 per ton last year...
...million Amount paid for Zao Wou-ki's Juin-Octobre 1985 in Hong Kong last week?the most ever for an auctioned Chinese oil painting...
...missile into the Sea of Japan (or East Sea) earlier this month. And U.S. officials have been warning that spy satellites have detected increased activity around a suspicious test facility in the northeast of the country that may presage an underground A-bomb test. South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon last week told a local TV news service: "I'm extremely concerned that the situation is getting worse...
...hands, convincing the international community to get serious about imposing painful sanctions. "If North Korea takes such reckless actions as conducting a nuclear test, it will further deepen its isolation and take itself on a road where its future will not be guaranteed," warned South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon...
...many ways, Nyerere managed to improve the lot of his people. He instilled a sense of national pride among the country's diverse tribal groups, and promoted Ki-swahili as the national language, factors that have contributed to Tanzania's having what is perhaps the lowest level of tribal strife of any country on the continent. In addition, Tanzania's 83% literacy rate is among the highest in Africa, health care has been improved, and the government has demonstrated concern for human rights...