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Word: koreans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manufacturers. Even though 125 countries have now signed a treaty banning the anti-personnel weapons, the makers won?t go out of business. There's their old standby the United States, which is refusing to sign up until it is given a special exclusion to plant mines in the Korean DMZ. Not to mention Russia, China, Iraq, Iran and Egypt, who all balked at this landmark treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land Mines: Still Booming | 12/4/1997 | See Source »

After three days of hemming, hawing and generally confusing the world, South Korean leaders have signed a letter of intent accepting a $57 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund. The measure, which would be the largest bailout the fund has ever provided, now goes to the IMF board for approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Swallows Bitter Pill | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...must be slashed to within 1 percent of GDP. There's precious little sugar with this medicine ? Seoul must maintain flexible monetary policies and allow temporary hikes in interest rates, says the IMF. A final bitter blow is that foreign investors will be allowed to increase their shareholdings in Korean companies to 50 percent this year ? up from the 26 percent limit currently allowed by the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Swallows Bitter Pill | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...reasoning was that [the name] was inappropriate and offensive to people who had fought in the Korean War, World War II or any war," Scali said, referring to soldiers who fought against communism...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass Ave Pub's Effort to Change Name Rebuffed by License Board | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

Dussourd said that he is friendly with several Korean War veterans and that he doesn't believe any of them would find the bar's proposed name polemical...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass Ave Pub's Effort to Change Name Rebuffed by License Board | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

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