Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in sluggish 1982, the value of foreign-made apparel increased almost 10% and totaled $7.1 billion. Longtime suppliers like Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea are being joined by new ones like Sri Lanka, Malaysia and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico. Since all these countries have access to the same machines and patterns in this low-tech business, their cheaper wages allow them to drive down costs. The typical garment worker in China makes 16? an hour; in Taiwan 57?, and in Hong Kong slightly more than $1. President Sol Chaikin of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union contends...
...private arms dealers you describe in your story "Arms for the Ayatullah" [July 25] are frightening individuals who earn their wealth by selling death. Even more despicable are nations like South Korea and Israel that resell arms ostensibly bought for their own defense. For our "allies" to turn around and sell those weapons to Iran, where we have banned such sales, is shocking...
Twice in the past four decades we miscalculated, and we had war in Korea and Viet Nam. The worry now is whether Ronald Reagan can perceive the fine line between drama and reality...
Though low-cost Chinese textile exports command less than 1% of the $100 billion U.S. market, they have grown at an average rate of 70% annually for the past three years. Among foreign textile suppliers to the U.S., China now trails only Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea. Prodded by the U.S. Government, the top three agreed to set a limit of 1.5% to 2% on the growth of their exports this year. The U.S. was willing to allow the Chinese an increase of slightly more than 2%, but Peking demanded 6%. When negotiations collapsed in January, the U.S. imposed...
...network immediately decided to continue the telethon for a total of 65 hours over the following eight days. Since then, the program has been moved into a regular twelve-hour time slot that begins on Friday nights. It has become by far the most popular TV show in South Korea, commanding as much as 78% of the viewing audience. Lee Won Hong, 54, president of KBS-TV, attributes the telethon's success in part to color television's widespread acceptance in South Korea, but the show's emotional impact and human drama are at least equally important...