Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last month Yeltsin cast an absentee ballot for Bush. He released information from the flight recorder of KAL 007, the Korean airliner that a Soviet interceptor shot down off Siberia in 1983. Yeltsin was making a humanitarian gesture to the families of the passengers, who included many Americans. But he was also inviting Bush to take credit for having encouraged the move, thus giving the beleaguered President a boost in the polls. Worried that his government was backing the wrong horse, the Russian ambassador to Washington, Vladimir Lukin, sent Yeltsin a positive assessment of Clinton and urged the conciliatory call...
...down 71%; at Toshiba, earnings are off 39%. As a result, the Japanese have retreated from some markets. Fujitsu, for example, is closing its U.S. chipmaking plant in San Diego. The factory made one-megabit memory ! chips, whose price has plunged in the wake of overproduction by South Korean firms. Japanese firms have recently had to contend with stiff competition from low-cost producers in Taiwan as well. They have also fumbled: Toshiba invented flash technology, but Intel picked up the idea and ran with it. Says Thomas Thornhill III, an analyst at Montgomery Securities: "We all thought Japan...
...reflex camera, for instance, and Texas Instruments supplies the digital processors for Sony compact-disc players. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, American companies are generating $1 billion a year in extra revenues as a result of the trade pacts. U.S. semiconductor companies are turning their attention to South Korean chipmakers, who were accused of dumping memory chips this year. Last month the Commerce Department levied preliminary antidumping duties as high as 87% against three Korean producers: Samsung, Hyundai and Gold Star...
...colliding stars, all to the swirling depths of epic music. Interactive media reached its apogee in exit poll analysis in one broadcast, as sturdy colored columns thrust out of the presenter's table to represent voters' wishes. "Now, Diane, do we have a breakdown of veterans from the Korean as opposed to Vietnam wars?" Pollsters' minutiae assailed the retina, with columns, forecasts and maps pulsating in all directions, quite inexplicably, yet invoked in deadly serious tones. "Diane, do we have a breakdown of votes of those who prefer eggs to cereal at breakfast? Do those who had sexual intercourse...
...City Girls, and Cul DeSac on Thursday, Nov. 5 (18+). Laughing Hyena, Smack Mellon, Spore, and Gaunt on Friday, Nov. 63. Olivz, Disco King, Riley's Field, and Falling August on Saturday, Nov. 7. P>Boy Meets Girls. Dress to impress. Cash bar. Sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Korean Student Association. Boston Marriott in Cambridge located at the Kendall Square T. Friday, Nov. 6 from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. $10 at the door; $8 in advance...