Word: koreans
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...