Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average hike of 1.98% a year in the 1965-70 period to 1.88% in the 1975-77 interval. Significantly, there were slowdowns not only in Western countries, where birth rates have long been declining, but also in such Third World countries as Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea and apparently China. Even India seems to have achieved a slight slowdown. By contrast, Kenya, Algeria, Tanzania and Nigeria had increased growth rates...
...main cause of European concern is the aggressive entry into world markets of South Korea, Singapore, Brazil and Mexico, which have mastered the basic technology in some relatively unsophisticated industries...
Protectionist pressures may intensify because South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore are becoming new Japans. Their advances have been nurtured by the West's aid, so it would be doubly tragic if the West tried to throttle them with tariffs and quotas. If protectionism bursts out, Whitman warns, "the worst casualties would be the least well-off countries. The industrialized countries would muddle through. But all economies would grow more slowly, and that would exacerbate the issue of income distribution. It's a lot easier to redistribute a growing pie than a stagnant...
...ironic that we are withdrawing from South Korea where we are truly welcomed and appreciated and contemplate paying $1 billion to stay and be abused in the Philippines...
...bulldozer driver at the Marines' Camp Pendleton: "It's a macho thing. There's a lot of resistance to us, but we can do more than some of the puny guys." Retired Major General John Singlaub, former chief of staff of the Eighth Army in South Korea, argues, however, that "it's a silly idea to put women in combat. To say that they are physiologically equal to men is to defy reality...